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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Common Schools"”.
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Inherently Undesirable: American Identity and the Role of Negative Eugenics in the Education of Visually Impaired and Blind Students in Ohio, 1870-1930
… of outright exclusion in the residential state schools, or segregation in isolated sight-saving classrooms in the common schools, was one of the strongest illustrations of negative eugenics. It implicated a classification and sorting system that utilized economic productivity as an assertedly …
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Call school: A history of rural education in the Midwest to 1918
… there were limitations to the benefits of common schools.
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Role of the Indiana township trustee in educational administration, 1895-1959
… managing the educational affairs of the public schools in rural Indiana from 1859 through 1959. The century time span started in 1859 when the state legislature enacted a law that reduced the number of trustees per township from three to one. The concluding year, 1959, the School Reorganization …
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Richard Cobden, educationist, economist and statesman.
… most statesmen and commercial men. His work for common schools, international schools, lyceums and educative popular newspapers was a failure and soon forgotten; his efforts to reform British foreign policy and implement arms control also failed. After his death, his followers failed to develop …
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The Impact of Caleb Mills on the Hoosier Education Debate: An Edition of Two Unpublished Addresses
This thesis examines how the writings of Caleb Mills impacted the development of public education in Indiana and includes an edition of two unpublished addresses by Mills, “A Lecture on Popular Education” and “Knowledge is Power.” The addresses provide a much-needed glimpse of some of Caleb Mills’ …
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The significance of the work of Colonel Francis Wayland Parker in the progressive educational movement with special reference to his influence on John Dewey
… lived. Then at a time when the whole system of common schools was in danger of failure Horace Mann gave his life to the promotion of the interests of the Common school.</p><p>In 1837, the very year Horace Mann gave up his prospect of a famous political career to become Secretary of the State …
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Common education and separate schools: study of sharing education in Northern Ireland using a grounded theory methodology
… It is acknowledged that problems exist with common education in certain forms, but it is argued that there is a case for a conception of common education in liberal democracies that is not necessarily confined to common schools but which engenders sharing, dialogue, openness and criticality. …