1900

• In January, 250,000 U.S. children under age fifteen did not attend school. Instead they worked in mines and factories.
• In March, the New York City Board of Education plans to allow students to bathe in some schools.
• On May 12, representatives from thirteen colleges and preparatory schools establish the College Entrance Examination Board.
• On July 11, renowned progressive educator Francis W. Parker pleads for the centrality of art in education, asserting in a speech to the National Education Association that there is "art in everything."
• In September, forty-eight students enroll in the new Department of School Administration at Teachers' College, Columbia University.
• On September 15, the Atlanta school system turns away four hundred students because of a lack of space in city schools.
• On November 12, Stanford University President David Starr Jordan ignites a national...