EDUCATION REFORM AND CHILD LABOR

What were the educational standards in America at the turn of the century?

Describe the educational system in America at the turn of the century

Describe Child Labor

How did progressives work to change America’s educational system and change our standards concerning child labor?

Progressive Education
http://www.uvm.edu/~dewey/proged.html
    Francis Parker
   
John Dewey
   
The PTA Begins
   
http://www.pta.org/apta/mile1890.htm

The origins of the Boy Scouts and the Girl Scouts
http://www.rulek.com/troop923/history.html
http://www.cyberscribes.com/scouts/scouting.htm
http://www.main.org/gsusa/histry.htm

Lillian Walk and Florence Kelley - Illinois Factory Act
http://womhist.binghamton.edu/factory/doc19.html
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAhullhouse.htm

National Child Labor Committee
http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/207_hine.html
http://www.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women/wh-exh-child.html

League for the Protection of Children

Mary Harris "Mother" Jones
http://www.greatwomen.org/jones.htm

The Bitter Cry of Children - John Spargo
http://longman.awl.com/history/primarysource_19_1.htm

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