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Whitebook, Marcy; Alvarenga, Claudia; Zheutlin, Barbara – Center for the Study of Child Care Employment, 2022
Today, free public kindergarten for five-year-old children is available in every state and community throughout the United States, and public education is routinely referred to as K-12. But kindergarten did not start out this way. Kindergartens in the United States once served children as young as three and four years old. In fact, today's…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Young Children, Preschool Teachers, Educational History
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Wharton-Beck, Aura – Journal of Ethnographic & Qualitative Research, 2021
The present historical case study was conducted in order to examine the unspoken narratives of six African American Government Girls who worked for the federal government during World War II. The present study documented the lives and experiences of six women employed by the U.S. federal government. Their deliberate decision to become civil…
Descriptors: African Americans, Females, Government Employees, Federal Government