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Direct linkRichardson, Theresa – American Educational History Journal, 2005
By the beginning of World War I most U.S. American children attended elementary school. However, up to 65% of school age children left their studies to find work after the fifth or sixth grade when they were ten or eleven years old. Four years after the stock market crash of 1929 one quarter of the labor force, or thirteen million workers of all…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Social Organizations, Child Development, Educational Development
