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Education during the Great Depression
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Goals of Education
-One of the main goals of education, of course, was and is to teach students to read and calculate, and the 1930s was a vibrant time for literature for both young people and adults.
-Students read books of writers like:
-Ernest Hemingway
-Thornton Wilder
-Raymond Chandler
-John Dos Passos
-Carl Sandburg
-Ogden Nash
-Wallace Stevens
Example North Carolina
-Not a single public school in the state shut its doors because of the Depression.
-The schools, the districts, and the educators themselves tried many creative ways to reduce costs and keep schools running.
Why it matters:
-Schools were closed
-Teachers' salaries were cut
-School programs were eliminated
General
-Students mostly walked to school for more than two miles.
-It wasn't important to go to school after eightht grade - you could better help the business/the farm running.
-Children who lived in town/city, had more educational opportunities than country children.
-Colleges wasn't big during the great depression.
-Many Students began to work after 8/9th grade to support their families
-only families with higher incomes were able to pay for their children to attend college.
Education during the Great Depression
Colleges
Sources :
http://www.enotes.com/1930-education-american-decades/depression-education
http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/life_21.html
http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/teachinger/glossary/great-depression.cfm
http://ncpedia.org/public-schools-great-depression
-Teachers didn't get pay well
-Teenagers and Children often had to work for their family
-Schools insisted out of two or three rooms for more than 80 students
City Schools
-School districts couldn't pay their teachers.
-One-room grade schools were still common.
-Teenagers sometimes had to quit school to work full time.