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100 1 $aThomas, Sue,$d1932-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2006022654
245 12 $aA second home :$bMissouri's early schools /$cSue Thomas.
260 $aColumbia :$bUniversity of Missouri Press,$c[2006], ©2006.
300 $axii, 142 pages :$billustrations, map ;$c23 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aMissouri heritage readers
520 $a"History of early schools in Missouri, including accounts of teaching materials and methods and schoolday activities. Describes schools in frontier settlements such as Ste. Genevieve. Discusses the beginnings of public education in the 1850s and the contributions of John Berry Meachum, James Milton Turner, and other African American leaders"--Provided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 133-135) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction : children on the frontier -- The first schools in upper Louisiana -- The Missouri Territory -- A new state -- The rural schoolhouse -- The rural schoolteacher -- The scholars' day -- Tools of learning -- The slow progress of common schools -- Rebuilding Missouri's school system "without regard to color" -- A gathering place.
520 1 $a"Sue Thomas traces the progress of early education in Missouri, demonstrating how important early schools were in taming the frontier. A Second Home offers an in-depth and entertaining look at education in the days when pioneers had to postpone schooling for their children until they could provide shelter for their families and clear their fields for crops, while well-to-do families employed tutors or sent their children back east. Thomas tells of the earliest known English school at the Ramsay settlement near Cape Girardeau, then of the opening of a handful of schools around the time of the Louisiana Purchase. She describes how, as communities grew, additional private schools opened - including "dame schools," denominational schools, and subscription schools - until public education came into its own in the 1850s." "Drawing on oral histories collected throughout the state, as well as private diaries and archival research, the book is full of firsthand accounts of what education once was like - including descriptions of the furnishings, teaching methods, and school-day activities in one-room log schools. It also includes the experiences of former slaves and free blacks following the Civil War when they were newly entitled to public education, with discussions of the contributions of John Berry Meachum, James Milton Turner, and other African American leaders."--BOOK JACKET.
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650 0 $aSchools$zMissouri$xHistory.
650 07 $aLandschule.$2swd
650 07 $aGeschichte.$2swd
651 7 $aMissouri (Staat)$2swd
776 08 $iOnline version:$aThomas, Sue, 1932-$tSecond home.$dColumbia : University of Missouri Press, c2006$w(OCoLC)607748725
830 0 $aMissouri heritage readers.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93123742
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0611/2006010059.html
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0611/2006010059.html
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