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What schools looked like the year you were born

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Schools in the US have changed a lot over the years. Chalkboards have been updated to whiteboards and Smart Boards. Notebooks and textbooks have been replaced with laptops and iPads. Segregation was overturned by the Supreme Court, and students are demanding safe schools free of gun violence from today's lawmakers.

Here's what schools have looked like from the 1940s to the present day.

1942

The students in a Seattle, Washington, high school duck for shelter beneath their desks during a mock air raid in 1942.



1944

Student Dan Moss reports the news to younger students in a 4A classroom in Chicago, Illinois, in 1944. On D-Day, older students heard broadcasts, rewrote them for primary students, and reported to classrooms throughout the school.



1947

A driving class at Chicago's Lane Technical High School learns the meaning of highway signs and signals in 1947.



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