Hello my name is Marissa M. and im in Mr. Salvucci’s 20th Century period 6. My project was on educating children and people don’t agree with the way schools are, how far they have to drive to a school, and what the teachers are teaching the students. During the 1800s the laws had started making young people go to school until they had finished 12th grade. In 1870 approximately 20 percent of the people in the United States were illiterate. Because of this the expansion of public education it led to a sharp decline in illiteracy. So people had decided to make schools in the areas they live in which made the public literacy increase. By the 1900s there were 6,000 high schools and by 1920 there were 14,000. In the addition of growing the public education was changing. Philosopher John Dewey had criticized schools for emphasizing memorization of knowledge. He had argued that schools should relate learning to the concerns of the students. But it did not work because people are still learning about history and science. It somewhat worked because we are learning english,other languages, and about our body. There are over a 14,000 schools all over the United States.