The 1950s: Growth & Expansion
With the prosperity and dramatic population growth of the post-war 40s and 50s, the School of Education was bursting at the seams. By the mid-50s, approximately 900 education undergraduates, 1,500 graduate students and 5,300 students enrolled in other schools and colleges were attending classes in 9 departments. Faculty were conducting important research studies in group dynamics and reading improvement and were continuing the longitudinal studies in child growth and development initiated by Willard Olson in the 1930s. University High School and University Elementary School were flourishing as laboratory schools. Together they enrolled approximately 500 children and youths (1) and, with more than 20 public school systems, served as practice teaching sites for School of Education students.
(1) Willard C. Olson, "The Future of the School of Education", School of Ed. Bltn. 26:7-8 (4-5 1955)
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