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Peer reviewedWebb, L. Dean; McCarthy, Martha M. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1998
Ella Flagg Young was the first woman superintendent of a large-city school system (Chicago, 1909-15) and the first woman president of the National Education Association (1910). A colleague of Dewey, Young pioneered democratic administrative practices in a scientific management era and organized school councils to give teachers a greater voice in…
Descriptors: Biographies, Democratic Values, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education
