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Revolutionary Era: Age of Enlightenment
The Age of Enlightenment encouraged all people to embark upon self-improvement. -
Educating the less priviledged classes
Apprenticeships for trades but also learned math skills and reading and writing. -
Benjamin Franklin establishes Junto
A Junto was designed to explore and discuss intellectual ideas and achievements. -
Revolutionary Troops are Reading
Had to learn to read so they could read Washington's orders. -
Evening schools begin
Due to immigration - teaching American history -
Social Changes
Classes increasingly including women - Ideas of time abolition, temperance, sufferage - big ideas -
Morrill Act signed into law
Land Grant College Act by Lincoln. Getting more toward agricultureal education - college more readily available and more affordable. -
Lake Chautauqua Institute of Lifelong Learning
OUt of school vacation - summer school for the general masses -
Great Wave of Immigration
becoming much more industrial - coming to the northern and midwestern areas for industry - big push for English as a seoncd language - on the job training - -
Americanization efforts increase
Industrial welfare movement in response to immigration and migrant workers - spilling over from 1800's and becoming larger Lot of people shiftying around due to Great Depression and being out of work -
"Special" Schools established
Issues of race, poverty, Brown vs Board Displaced families - teaching women -
Highlander Folk School
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GED Tests post-war effort
Counselng started at end of war movement for job - what is their placement going to be after war? Providing jobs and education for masses that return and to be employed and employable Similar to Workforce Development -
Kennedy Area Redevelopment Act
Continuation of Federal involvement in transforming educational levels and looking at equal rights - peieces of legislation
Adult Education Act 166 -
Economic Opportunity Act
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Job Training Programs
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VAACE begins
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State Council on Higher Education
State funding
teacher certification
set age for school to begin
1916 7 months
1928 - 180 days
1939 - adult education began -
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Adult Education in recent Virginia history
Efforts to strengthen and develop adult education in Virginia have taken many forms. -
Virginia Literacy Foundation
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Race to GED
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