America 1930-1939: Education Research Article from American Decades

This Study Guide consists of approximately 89 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of America 1930-1939.
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America 1930-1939: Education Research Article from American Decades

This Study Guide consists of approximately 89 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of America 1930-1939.
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Counts was born on 9 December 1889 near Baldwin, Kansas. As a youth, he hoped to become a trapper and evidenced a marked taste for adventure. As the frontier was closed, he gave up his youthful ambition, attending Baker University in Baldwin and majoring in classics. Following college, he taught science in high school, eventually becoming a teaching principal. In 1913 he won a scholarship to study sociology at the University of Chicago, where the faculty included some of the foremost sociologists and educators in America. Counts studied with Albion Small, Frederick Starr, Charles Hubbard Judd, and Charles E. Merriam. All emphasized the social and economic context of education, the way in which the schools reflected their settings. Counts received the first doctorate in the sociology of education granted by the University of Chicago and immediately began serving on a series of faculties: Delaware College, Harris Teachers College in Saint...

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