Note 130 — Chapter III · Laws for the Expansion of the History Curriculum 1900-1917

This period recognized the importance of vocational training as an important function of the public school, and developed an interest in other “expression subjects.” The content subjects were also expanded and liberalized. According to Cubberley, “The modern school aims to train pupils for greater social usefulness and to give them a more intelligent grasp of the social and industrial, as well as the moral and civic structure of our modern democratic life.” Cubberley, Ellwood P., Public Education in the United States (Boston, 1919), p. 370.