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Stoddart, Jess – 2002
Founded in 1902 by Katherine Pettit and May Stone, the Hindman Settlement School in Knott County, Kentucky, grew out of the Progressive movement. During the golden age of the school, 1915-32, the reputation of its academic program, health work, and other settlement activities brought substantial renown and influence to the school and its founders.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Boarding Schools, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education
Leloudis, James L. – 1996
From 1880 through the mid-1920s, reformers labored to make a "New South" through the agency of public education. During those years, North Carolina led the way in building thousands of new schoolhouses, professionalizing teacher training, and developing an elaborate educational bureaucracy. Southern educational reform turned on the…
Descriptors: Black Education, Black Teachers, Consolidated Schools, Educational Change
United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1899
This is Volume 1 of the Report of the Commissioner of Education for the Year 1897-98, containing Part I. The volume begins with the Commissioner's Introduction and Statistics of State Common School Systems. Part I covers the topics: (1) History of the German School System; (2) Summer Schools in England, Scotland, France, and Switzerland; (3)…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Statistical Data, Educational History, Summer Schools