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Children returning to class following a fire drill at a Chicago elementary school, 1973. Photo by John H. White.. According to John L. Rury, the first small private schools were established as Chicago began to expand in the late 1830s.
The primary design impetus of many American schools following an increase in enrollment due to the arrival of Baby Boomers in school was to renovate unsafe or overcrowded facilities, remove inadequate temporary classrooms, commonly referred to as "portables," and accommodate as many children as possible. In some places, schools experimented ...
Generation Jones were children during the sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s and were young adults when HIV/AIDS became a worldwide threat in the 1980s. The majority of Joneses reached maturity from 1972 to 1979, while younger members came of age from 1980 to 1983, just as the older Baby Boomers had come of age from 1964 to 1971.
Baby boomers, they're just like us. Or, rather, we're just like them. And by "we," I mean millennials. The inevitable march of time often means turning into your parents, no matter how much you ...
An older person showing off their money. The Baby Boomer generation was in their peak working years when the U.S. Dollar had its strongest purchasing power. In 1968, the federal minimum wage was ...
The demographics of the city were changing in the early 20th century as black southern families migrated out of the south, but while cities like Chicago empathized with the condition of impoverished white children, black children were mostly excluded from the private and religious institutions that provided homes for such children.
Boomers were raised looking at maps using the Mercator projection, which distorted the size of North America and Europe in relation to their southern neighbors. No wonder we think the U.S. is the ...
Echo Boomers (Millennials): are mostly the children of baby boomers and a few members of the Silent Generation and Gen X, and are commonly considered to be born from the early 1980s to the mid or late 1990s. [26] [27] They are considered to be the first "digital natives", and thus have a large influence on social media, and the video game ...