PROGRESSIVE PERIOD


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The Impact of Business and Industry

Development of the Role of Principal


Development of the Role of Superintendent of Schools

A Lyme, Connecticut, Recommendation for a Teaching Position, 1817

An Old Lyme, Connecticut, Teaching Certificate, 1889


Division of the School into Grades


The High School: Successor to the Grammar School and Academy


The N.E.A. Committee of Ten


The Plessy v. Ferguson Case, 1896


The Formation of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT)


The Cardinal Principles of Secondary Education


The Chautauqua Movement


The Original Chautauqua


Jane Addams and the Founding of Hull House


Development of Manual Training


A political cartoon from about 1900 favoring practical learning


Physical education in the Progressive Era (outdoors)

Physical education in the Progressive Era (indoors)


Cover from a Progressive Era 3rd Reader


Immigrant education about 1900

A classroom on the Lower East side in New York City


Child Labor: a boy working in a factory

Child Labor: a demonstration by children

Child Labor: children doing agricultural work in the South


Recess at a Rural One-room School


A One-room Sod School on the Nebraska Frontier