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IV. Major Progressivism Programs
A .Education
1. Progressive education--John Dewey led movement that focused on personal growth, not mastery of body of knowledge and learning through experience.
2. Charles Eliot of Harvard pioneered elective courses and new teaching techniques (such as seminars) to make university learning more meaningful
3. Women began attending colleges in large numbers (by 1920, 47% of total enrollment was female).
4. Believing that more education would help bring an enlightened population, Progressives pushed enrollments to record levels (86% of children in schools by 1920) without seriously assessing how schools were doing.
B. Law--judges opinions needed to be based on factual information, not just oral arguments and precedents
1. Muller V. Oregon (1908)--limited women's working hours
2. Not all Progressive legal principles prevailed. In Lochner v. New York (1905), the Supreme Court overturned a New York law limiting bakers' working hours.
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