7th-1930s+Education

​ John Dewey ​ John dewey (1859-1952) 20th century made the most signafact contribution to educational thinking The oldest inthe family died at infancy.he went to school with three of his other brother at University of vermont in burlington. After graduating in1879 he went and taught high school for about three years. during this time is when he he had the idea of changing carreers and pursuing a career in philosophy. Dewey then went and sent an essay that involved philosophy to W.T. Harris. Next he sent it to The Journal of speculative philosophy. Harris gave acceptance to dewey's essay which in turn gave the confirmation for him to become a philosopher. With that much confidence Dewey enrolled to the at John Hopkins university. In 1884 He recievied his docterateand went to teach at the university of Michigan. During his time at the university he wrote his first two books. In 1887 he wrote (Psychology), then in 1888 he wrote (Leibniz's new essays concerning the human understanding). He went on to write many more books.This was the man who created the dewey decimal system which we still use today.

Literacy

In the 1930's to have been considered literate you would have to had 3 or more years of schooling. As a person who was 14 years and older, a total of 3 % whites were illiterate. Also 14 years od older 1.6 native whites were, and 10.8 forgin born whites, 16.4 percent of blacks were as well. In the 1930's illiteracy was considerbly low coming up as about 4%. In the book "To kill a mocking bird" Scout Boasts about how she can read and her brother Jem said she's been reading since she could talk. Also in the book the Ewells family was mostley illiterate, and thats because they went to shcool for the first few day and then they would stop coming for the rest of the year.Another reason the Ewell's were most likely illiterate was they were very poor, and quite a dirty folk.That was proably the case back then if you were poor you were most likely illiterate, but of course that wasn't always the case. during the 1930's was the time when Willian S Grey and his partner created basal reading which was a method used to teach deaf people to read

1930's Disavantages in Education

In the 1930's segergation was the law this ment that the african american people could not got to the same school as the white kids. The black people of the community that go to the school don't even get the certain amount of eduacation that they should. During this time though was also the time that people were fighting against segergation in schools. It was also very hard during this time, becuase of little money and little supply's.chool terms were shortened. Teachers saleries were cut, and the teachers that got paid pretty good were happy for the job. In desperate times they even had to once force kids to drop out to keep the school open.