Going to School During the Great Depression
Title | Going to School During the Great Depression PDF eBook |
Author | Kerry A. Graves |
Publisher | Capstone |
Pages | 40 |
Release | 2001-08 |
Genre | Depressions |
ISBN | 0736808000 |
Discusses school life during the Great Depression, including schools, lessons, books, and teachers. Addresses social and economic life during the 1930s. Includes activities.
Education & the Great Depression
Title | Education & the Great Depression PDF eBook |
Author | David Hicks |
Publisher | Peter Lang |
Pages | 338 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780820471433 |
Education and the Great Depression: Lessons from a Global History examines the history of schools in terms of pedagogies, curricula, policies, and practices at the point of intersection with worldwide patterns of economic crisis, political instability, and social transformation. Examining the Great Depression in the historical contexts of Egypt, Turkey, Germany, Brazil, and New Zealand and in the regional contexts of the United States, including Virginia, New York City, Cleveland, Chicago, and South Carolina, this collection broadens our understanding of the scope of this crisis while also locating more familiar American examples in a global framework.
Schools In Great Depression
Title | Schools In Great Depression PDF eBook |
Author | Dominic W Moreo |
Publisher | Garland Science |
Pages | 136 |
Release | 2021-12-12 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1000526801 |
First Published in 1996. The Great Depression was not a seamless web of human experience. Disparate images of highs and lows in daily individual experiences proliferated. This study is a modest attempt to delineate the effects of the Great Depression upon the schools. For the most part, the “voices” of this work are drawn from the press and periodicals of the times. On one level, this work is concerned with the coming of the Depression and its effects upon the schools. It is a tale worth telling.
Public Schools in Hard Times
Title | Public Schools in Hard Times PDF eBook |
Author | David B. Tyack |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 294 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780674738003 |
In the first social history of what happened to public schools in those "years of the locust," the authors explore the daily experience of schoolchildren in many kinds of communities--the public school students of working-class northeastern towns, the rural black children of the South, the prosperous adolescents of midwestern suburbs. How did educators respond to the fiscal crisis, and why did Americans retain their faith in public schooling during the cataclysm? The authors examine how New Dealers regarded public education and the reaction of public school people to the distinctive New Deal style in programs such as the National Youth Administration. They illustrate the story with photographs, cartoons, and vignettes of life behind the schoolhouse door. Moving from that troubled period to our own, the authors compare the anxieties of the depression decade with the uncertainties of the 1970s and 1980s. Heirs to an optimistic tradition and trained to manage growth, school staff have lately encountered three shortages: of pupils, money, and public confidence. Professional morale has dropped as expectations and criticism have mounted. Changes in the governing and financing of education have made planning for the future even riskier than usual. Drawing on the experience of the 1930s to illuminate the problems of the 1980s, the authors lend historical perspective to current discussions about the future of public education. They stress the basic stability of public education while emphasizing the unfinished business of achieving equality in schooling.
Potato
Title | Potato PDF eBook |
Author | Kate Lied |
Publisher | National Geographic Kids |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2002-11 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9780792269465 |
When Dorothy's father loses his job and cannot find another, the family borrows a car and sets off for Idaho where jobs picking potatoes can be found. This true story gives children a vivid sense of the Great Depression on a level they can understand. Full-color illustrations.
Growing Up in the Great Depression 1929 to 1941
Title | Growing Up in the Great Depression 1929 to 1941 PDF eBook |
Author | Amy Ruth Allen |
Publisher | Lerner Publications |
Pages | 68 |
Release | 2002-08-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0822580241 |
Confronted with starvation, lack of education, and homelessness, children of the Great Depression, like sixteen-year-old Clarence Lee, whose father asked him to leave home because he could no longer afford to support him, grew up quickly. Many weren't able to attend school. Instead, millions of American children worked alongside their parents, trying to make ends meet. In spite of these challenges, they grew up with courage, a sense of responsibility, and the knowledge that hope can make a difference.
What Was the Great Depression?
Title | What Was the Great Depression? PDF eBook |
Author | Janet B. Pascal |
Publisher | Penguin Workshop |
Pages | 114 |
Release | 2015-12-22 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0448484277 |
On October 29, 1929, life in the United States took a turn for the worst. The stock market – the system that controls money in America – plunged to a record low. But this event was only the beginning of many bad years to come. By the early 1930s, one out of three people was not working. People lost their jobs, their houses, or both and ended up in shantytowns called “Hoovervilles” named for the president at the time of the crash. By 1933, many banks had gone under. Though the U.S. has seen other times of struggle, the Great Depression remains one of the hardest and most widespread tragedies in American history. Now it is represented clearly and with 80 illustrations in our What Was…? series.