Educational Reform

EDUCATIONAL REFORM:

Compulsory Education Laws:

“Laboratory School”: Chicago, Illinois

He stressed: “Cooperative Learning by Doing”

Reformers also stressed:

· Proper Behavior

· Civics

· American Values

Fear of mass immigration and social chaos led to push for “discipline and order”

Growing education led to a need for more:

Literature and Newspapers

Owners:

New York Journal: Hearst New York World: Pulitzer

Competition of yellow journalism or yellow press: Sensational Stories

RECREATION:

New York City Central Park: 1857: Frederick Law Olmstead

Led to new American movement called: City Beautiful Movement

SPORTS

Baseball: Abner Doubleday (mid-1800s)

Basketball: James Naismith (1891) Football: Walter Camp

Entertainment:

“King of Ragtime”… Scott Joplin

Self Expressive dances (unlike Waltz and other Victorian styles)

Different dances: “Cakewalk”, “Turkey Trot”, “Grizzly Bear”