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American Education In Public Schools During The 1900's

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During the 1900s until the launch of Sputnik, there was a great progress in American education and public schools. The American public schools started to search for ways to accommodate both Americans and pouring immigrants. As numbers of children attending public schools increased, the efforts to respond to questions about what to teach, and how to allocate educational opportunities among different groups of children strengthened. Progressive reformers did a great job to newly assimilate experience-oriented curriculum into public schools. For example, John Dewey had successfully introduced a new progressive technique – “learning by doing”, of which children exercised their bodies as well as their minds, and ventured out of the classroom to

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