Army develops multiple-choice testing (1917) / Smith-Hughes Act provides federal matching funds for vocational education (1917) / Mississippi is the last state to pass compulsory education laws (1918) / John T. Scopes, a school teacher in Tennessee, is arrested for teaching evolution to his students (1925)
MILESTONES: Andrew Carnegie endows a foundation for the retirement of college teachers (1905) • Formation of Intercollegiate Athlete Association and reformulation of its football rules (1905) • Einstein theorizes that light is composed of particles that he calls photons (1905) • Flexner Report questions the inadequacy of American medical schools and poor training of physicians (1910) • Margaret Sanger risks arrest by opening up birth control clinics and importing and distributing contraceptives illegally (1914) • Harlem Renaissance produces renowned African American writers, artists, and musicians (1920s) • Supreme Court decision, Buck v. Bell, rules that involuntary sterilization for eugenic purposes is constitutional (1927)
1930–1944 ∼ Depression and War-time Opportunities
One-third of college professors are women (1930) / School attendance rises as jobs decrease (1930–1933) / Civilian Conservation Corps provides some Depression era education (1933–35) / School bus standardization (1937–39) / G.I.
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