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    School enrollments expanded rapidly during the 1920s, from 1 million students in 1914 to 4 million in 1926, as schools offered a broader range of courses including vocational training to meet the demands of a growing population. The rise of mass media like newspapers, radio, and movies helped shape a shared national culture. The 1920s saw the rise of new sports and entertainment heroes that captured the national imagination, from Babe Ruth to Charles Lindbergh, as well as new styles in art, literature, and music that reflected the cultural experimentation of the postwar period.

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    School enrollments expanded rapidly during the 1920s, from 1 million students in 1914 to 4 million in 1926, as schools offered a broader range of courses including vocational training to meet the demands of a growing population. The rise of mass media like newspapers, radio, and movies helped shape a shared national culture. The 1920s saw the rise of new sports and entertainment heroes that captured the national imagination, from Babe Ruth to Charles Lindbergh, as well as new styles in art, literature, and music that reflected the cultural experimentation of the postwar period.

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    EDUCATION AND POPULAR CULTURE

    Objectives
    Describe the popular culture of the 1920s
    Explain why the youth-dominated decade came to be called
    the Roaring Twenties

    SCHOOLS AND THE MASS MEDIA SHAPE CULTURE


    Schools Enrollments

    1914

    1,000,000
    College bound students

    1926

    4,000,000
    Broad range of courses
    vocational courses

    SCHOOLS AND THE MASS MEDIA SHAPE CULTURE


    Schools Enrollments (cont.)

    Immigrant children

    Expanding News Coverage

    Newspaper circulation rises


    Local papers begin to be swallowed up by national chains

    Teachers had to meet this new demand

    Cost of Education
    Doubled between 1913 1920
    Doubled again 1920 1926
    $2.7 billion a year

    SCHOOLS AND THE MASS MEDIA SHAPE CULTURE


    Radio Comes of Age

    Shared
    national
    experience

    tune in on
    the
    airwaves

    The World
    Series

    The
    President

    AMERICA CHASES NEW HEROES AND OLD DREAMS


    Leisure Time

    $4.5 billion spend on entertainment in 1929

    Sports Stars
    Gertude
    Ederle

    1st woman to swim the English Channel

    Babe Ruth

    New York Yankees Home Run King

    Andrew
    Rube Foster

    Father of Black Baseball

    Helen Wills

    7x Womens singles champ at the U.S. Open

    AMERICA CHASES NEW HEROES AND OLD DREAMS


    Lindbergs Flight

    33 hour 29 minute transatlantic flight


    New York to Paris The Spirt of St. Louis
    $25,000 Prize for the solo flight

    Entertainment and the Arts


    The Jazz Singer

    Movies

    Steam Boat Willie

    Talkies
    George
    Gershwin

    Merged classical and jazz

    Huge party in Paris


    Ticker tape parade in NYC

    Georgia OKeeffe

    Edward Hopper

    AMERICA CHASES NEW HEROES AND OLD DREAMS


    Writers of the 1920s
    Considered one of the richest eras in countrys literary history
    Sinclair Lewis
    1st American Noble Prize winner in literature

    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    Jazz Age
    The Great Gatsby

    The Lost Generation


    Gertrude Stein
    Ernest Hemingway
    The Sun Also Rises
    A Farewell to Arms

    1. How did public high school play a role in preparing students for the future?
    2. How did various forms of media help to shape American culture in the 1920s?

    3. Which heroes and events inspired Americans during the 1920s?


    4. What new styles did writers, artists, and composers experiment with in the decade?

    5. How did the literature of the time express a clash of values within society?

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