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Download full textNational PTA, Chicago, IL. – 1997
This book recounts the historical achievements of the National PTA and its sister organization, the National Congress of Colored Parents and Teachers. The PTA is the result of the hard work of such women as Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Alice McLellan Birney, founders of the original National Congress of Mothers, and Selma Sloan Butler, who, with the…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Blacks, Child Health, Child Safety
Zigler, Edward; Muenchow, Susan – 1992
This book describes the history of the Head Start program. Encouraged by Sargent Shriver, director of the Office of Economic Opportunity, in February, 1965, the Head Start Planning Commission presented a proposal for a program to the Johnson administration, which promoted it as a nationwide program to serve half a million poor children. By the…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Child Health, Compensatory Education, Day Care
Grant, Agnes – 1996
This book documents and comments on what is known about the Indian residential school era in Canada. The aftermath of this era has exacted a huge toll, both in the human suffering of First Nations and on Canadian society in general, but understanding the impact of residential schools can aid the healing process. Chapters are: (1) "Examining…
Descriptors: Acculturation, American Indian Education, Boarding Schools, Canada Natives
Keller, Jean A. – 2002
As one of the last nonreservation boarding schools built for American Indian students in the United States, Sherman Institute (Riverside, California) benefited from lessons learned about student health from earlier boarding schools. Excessive student morbidity and mortality at early boarding schools had resulted in a lasting perception of these…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indian Students, Boarding Schools, Building Design
Mellor, Elizabeth J. – 1990
This book presents an overview of the health, education, and care services for young children in Australia in the past 100 years. The book explores how overseas developments, changing values, economic forces, and local conditions shaped and continue to shape the services provided for young children. Chapters in part 1 cover the late 1800s. Chapter…
Descriptors: Boarding Homes, Child Advocacy, Child Health, Child Welfare
Holt, Marilyn Irvin – 1995
This book focuses on the domestic economy movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which intended to transform agrarian society and improve rural life through the education of rural women. The movement considered women to be partners in business with their farmer husbands and pursued the goal of making rural women more able managers and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Child Health, Child Rearing, Educational History
