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EDUCATION BEFORE THE 1920s

EDUCATION BEFORE THE 1920s. ENROLLMENTS APPROXIMATELY 1 MILLION HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS TYPES OF COURSES HIGH SCHOOLS CATERED TO COLLEGE-BOUND STUDENTS IMMIGRANTS MANY IMMIGRANT STUDENTS WHO SPOKE SOME ENGLISH FINANCING COSTS DOUBLED FROM 1913 TO 1920. EDUCATION DURING THE 1920s.

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EDUCATION BEFORE THE 1920s

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  1. EDUCATION BEFORE THE 1920s • ENROLLMENTS • APPROXIMATELY 1 MILLION HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS • TYPES OF COURSES • HIGH SCHOOLS CATERED TO COLLEGE-BOUND STUDENTS • IMMIGRANTS • MANY IMMIGRANT STUDENTS WHO SPOKE SOME ENGLISH • FINANCING • COSTS DOUBLED FROM 1913 TO 1920

  2. EDUCATION DURING THE 1920s • ENROLLMENTS • 4 MILLION STUDENTS • TYPES OF COURSES • THEY CATERED TO BROAD RANGE OF STUDENTS, INCLUDING THOSE INTERESTED IN VOCATIONAL TRAINING AND HOME ECONOMICS • IMMIGRANTS • MANY WHO SPOKE NO ENGLISH • FINANCING • COSTS DOUBLED AGAIN, TOTALING $2.7 BILLION A YEAR BY 1926

  3. POPULAR CULTURE • MAGAZINE • TIME, READER’S DIGEST • RADIO • KDKA, MELODY MAKER • SPORTS • BABE RUTH, JACK DEMPSEY, GENE TUNNEY, HELEN WILLS, GERTUDE EDERLE, ANDREW FOSTER • MOVIES • THE JAZZ SINGER, STEAMBOAT WILLIE

  4. POPULAR CULTURE • THEATER, MUSIC, AND ART • EUGENE O’NEILL, GEORGE GERSHWIN, EDWARD HOPPER. GEORGIA O’KEEFFE, THE HAIRY APE • LITERATURE • SINCLAIR LEWIS, F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, DOROTHY PARKER, EDITH WHARTON, WILLA CATHER, EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY, ERNEST HEMINGWAY, JOHN DOS PASSOS, T.S. ELIOT, EZRA POUND • BABITT, THIS SIDE OF PARADISE, THE GREAT GATSBY, THE AGE OF INNOCENCE, BARREN GROUND, MY ANTONIA, THE WASTE LAND, THREE SOLDIERS, THE SUN ALSO RISES, A FAREWELL TO ARMS

  5. CHARLES A. LINDBERGH • LINDBERGH PILOTED THE FIRST NONSTOP SOLO FLIGHT ACROSS THE ATLANTIC OCEAN

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