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A Second Home: Missouri's Early Schools (MISSOURI HERITAGE READERS)
Sue Thomas
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Description for A Second Home: Missouri's Early Schools (MISSOURI HERITAGE READERS)
Paperback. Traces the progress of early education in Missouri, demonstrating how important early schools were in taming the frontier. This work tells of community gatherings in country schools and events such as taffy pulls and spelling bees, and offers tales of stern teachers, student pranks, and schoolyard games. Series: Missouri Heritage Readers Series. Num Pages: 160 pages, illustrations, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBNU; 3JH; JNLB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 254.
The one-room schoolhouse may be a thing of the past, but it is the foundation on which modern education rests. Sue Thomas now traces the progress of early education in Missouri, demonstrating how important early schools were in taming the frontier. ""A Second Home"" offers an in-depth and entertaining look at education in the days when pioneers had to postpone schooling for their children until they could provide shelter for their families and clear their fields for crops, while well-to-do families employed tutors or sent their children back east. Thomas tells of the earliest known English school at the Ramsay ... Read more
The one-room schoolhouse may be a thing of the past, but it is the foundation on which modern education rests. Sue Thomas now traces the progress of early education in Missouri, demonstrating how important early schools were in taming the frontier. ""A Second Home"" offers an in-depth and entertaining look at education in the days when pioneers had to postpone schooling for their children until they could provide shelter for their families and clear their fields for crops, while well-to-do families employed tutors or sent their children back east. Thomas tells of the earliest known English school at the Ramsay ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Missouri
Condition
New
Series
Missouri Heritage Readers Series
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Missouri, United States
ISBN
9780826216694
SKU
V9780826216694
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About Sue Thomas
SUE THOMAS, a former elementary school teacher, is a freelance writer whose other books include The Poetry Pad, Curtain I, Curtain II, and the historical fiction novel for preteens Secesh. She lives in Kansas City.
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