Charlotte Hawkins

Brown
Her Impact on Education

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Background on Austin Global Studies

Our Project Task
Charlotte Hawkins Brown- Early Life
Important Events/ Accomplishments
National and Global significance
Reason for memorialization
Works Cited

Background on AGS
The Academy for global studies is a program at Austin High School Once a
year we travel,
throughout the country or internationally, in order to interact with
local people and experience their living conditions, conduct
independent research, and engage in service learning.

Project Task

Guiding Question: What topic has both national and global significance and
deserves to be memorialized?
Purpose: Travel to Washington, D.C. to propose a memorial for our
selected topic (Education) of both national and global significance.

Early Life

Born Lottie Hawkins* on June 11, 1883 In Henderson, NC

Moved to Cambridge, MA at 7 years old
At the age of 12 she organized a kindergarten program in the Sunday
School at her church
She was the chosen speaker at her graduation from Allston Grammar
School
She met Alice Freeman Palmer while babysitting
Palmer financed Charlotte's education

* In 1900 Lottie changed her name to Charlotte because it sounded more cultured

Important Events and Accomplishments

Charlotte started teaching at a small one room school in the south

Global Significance

In 8 countries more than 50% of young people aged 20-24 years have less
than 2 years of schooling
A good education system ensures students will remain enrolled, however in
many developing countries many students either don't finish with primary
school or struggle throughout primary school.
immutable aspects like poverty, gender, ethnicity, and location all lead to
education inequality

National Significance

In our country poverty is intransigent; its a cycle of low-wage jobs, inaffordable housing, and living life one car repair or
illness from being truly destitute.

Poverty is such a difficult problem because its intergenerational, defying the American ideal of the self-made person.

Nothing protects ones self determination like having the opportunity for an education and, in time, having a good job.

A growing gap between races and education threatens our society. In California, 18 percent of high school students fail to
graduate in four years. For African American students, the dropout rate is 30 percent, and for Latino students the dropout
rate is 23 percent.

Reason for memorialization

Works Cited
http://www.nchistoricsites.org/chb/chb.htm (put in mla citation form)