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The Season of Dorland-Bell: History of an Appalachian Mission School. Revised Second Edition.
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Painter, Jacqueline Burgin – 1996
This book details the history of the Dorland-Bell School, a residential school in rural western North Carolina. The book is based on letters, extensive interviews, and research about the school. In 1886, Luke and Juliette Dorland, Presbyterian missionaries and educators, retired to Hot Springs, North Carolina. However, at the request of residents…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Boarding Schools, Cultural Influences, Educational History
Children of the Harvest: The Schooling of Dust Bowl and Mexican Migrants during the Depression Era.
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Theobald, Paul; Donato, Ruben – Peabody Journal of Education, 1990
Chronicles experiences of depression era "Okies," juxtaposes them against experiences of Mexican Americans, and illuminates the diminution of agricultural labor in an industrializing society. Schooling for those groups was legitimized by their low occupational status. When economic circumstances improved, whites escaped from migrant…
Descriptors: Agricultural Occupations, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education