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Tompkins, Susie Powers – 1992
This book describes the experience of a young and inexperienced teacher during 1926 in rural Marengo County, Alabama. Susie Powers Tompkins accepted her first teaching assignment to earn money to continue college after her freshman year at Alabama College. However, for Tompkins the rewards of teaching went far beyond just earning money. She found…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Beginning Teachers, Educational History, Elementary Education
Download full textUnited States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1913
The Conference for Education in the South, which for 16 years has held its annual sessions at different places in the Southern States, is unique among educational conferences, in that its membership does not consist chiefly of teachers and school officers, but of farmers, professional men of all kinds, business men, and women of varied interests,…
Descriptors: Clubs, Females, Bachelors Degrees, Teacher Certification
