American Decades

Important Events in Education, 1930–1939

On February 3, some 1.5 million schoolchildren listen to the first educational radio broadcast, transmitted on CBS by the American School of the Air.
On July 1, Francis T. Spaulding at the Summer School for Engineering Teachers in New Haven, Connecticut, criticizes college and university faculty for teaching by lecture, leaving students to learn the information on their own.
On October 15, festivities at colleges and in communities around the United States celebrate the Virgil Bimillennium, the two-thousandth anniversary of the birth of the Roman poet.
On December 6, a grand jury in Westchester County, New York, accuses its public schools of fostering an increase in crime by failing to teach morals and character. No evidence indicates that crime increased in 1930 in Westchester County.

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