Author: London Yearly Meeting (Society of Friends)
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Category : Society of Friends
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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A Report of the Annual Meeting of the Society of Friends, During the Month of May, 1835
Author: London Yearly Meeting (Society of Friends)
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Category : Society of Friends
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Publisher:
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Category : Society of Friends
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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A Report of the Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Society of Friends
Author: London Yearly Meeting (Society of Friends)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Languages : en
Pages : 28
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A Descriptive Catalogue of Friends' Books
Author: Joseph Smith
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Category : Quakers
Languages : en
Pages : 1024
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Category : Quakers
Languages : en
Pages : 1024
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The Fourth Report of the Leeds Temperance Society, ... To which are Added, the Rules of the Society
Author: Leeds Temperance Society
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Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue. Series II, Phase I, 1816-1870
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 640
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 640
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Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue
Author: Avero Publications Limited
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ISBN: 9780907977322
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 640
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ISBN: 9780907977322
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 640
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Mr. Lancaster's System
Author: Adam Laats
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421449374
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
How a con artist "reformer" shaped America's modern public schools. Two centuries ago, London school reformer Joseph Lancaster swept into New York City to revolutionize its public schools. Pennsylvania and Massachusetts passed laws mandating Lancaster's methods, and cities such as Albany, Savannah, Detroit, and Baltimore soon followed. In Mr. Lancaster's System, Adam Laats tells the story of how this abusive, scheming reformer fooled the world into believing his system could provide free high-quality education for poor children. The system never worked as promised, but thanks to real work done by students, teachers, and families, Lancaster's failed reforms eventually led to the creation of the modern public school system. Lancaster's idea was simple: instead of hiring expensive adult teachers, Lancasterian schools made children teach one another to read, write, and behave properly. America's city leaders poured the equivalent of millions of dollars into the scheme, built specialized school buildings featuring Lancaster's teaching machines, and offered him a huge salary. In London, where Lancaster opened his first school, the enthusiasm of city leaders was quickly and similarly followed by scandal and dismay. Lancaster borrowed money—even from the king of England—and spent it on fancy carriage rides and cases of champagne. Even worse, Lancaster proved to be a sexual predator. Kicked out of London, Lancaster brought his simplistic plan to the United States. His school model didn't work any better in US cities than it had in London, and Lancaster himself never changed his abusive ways. Mr. Lancaster's System details how American cities created their first public schools out of the wreckage of Lancasterian failure. In the end, the most important people in this story are not self-proclaimed geniuses like Lancaster or elites like New York's mayor De Witt Clinton, but rather the thousands of parents and children who forced urban public schools to assume their modern shape.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421449374
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
How a con artist "reformer" shaped America's modern public schools. Two centuries ago, London school reformer Joseph Lancaster swept into New York City to revolutionize its public schools. Pennsylvania and Massachusetts passed laws mandating Lancaster's methods, and cities such as Albany, Savannah, Detroit, and Baltimore soon followed. In Mr. Lancaster's System, Adam Laats tells the story of how this abusive, scheming reformer fooled the world into believing his system could provide free high-quality education for poor children. The system never worked as promised, but thanks to real work done by students, teachers, and families, Lancaster's failed reforms eventually led to the creation of the modern public school system. Lancaster's idea was simple: instead of hiring expensive adult teachers, Lancasterian schools made children teach one another to read, write, and behave properly. America's city leaders poured the equivalent of millions of dollars into the scheme, built specialized school buildings featuring Lancaster's teaching machines, and offered him a huge salary. In London, where Lancaster opened his first school, the enthusiasm of city leaders was quickly and similarly followed by scandal and dismay. Lancaster borrowed money—even from the king of England—and spent it on fancy carriage rides and cases of champagne. Even worse, Lancaster proved to be a sexual predator. Kicked out of London, Lancaster brought his simplistic plan to the United States. His school model didn't work any better in US cities than it had in London, and Lancaster himself never changed his abusive ways. Mr. Lancaster's System details how American cities created their first public schools out of the wreckage of Lancasterian failure. In the end, the most important people in this story are not self-proclaimed geniuses like Lancaster or elites like New York's mayor De Witt Clinton, but rather the thousands of parents and children who forced urban public schools to assume their modern shape.
The Friend
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Category : Society of Friends
Languages : en
Pages : 436
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Category : Society of Friends
Languages : en
Pages : 436
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Friends' Weekly Intelligencer
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Category : Society of Friends
Languages : en
Pages : 862
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Category : Society of Friends
Languages : en
Pages : 862
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Colonization and Its Discontents
Author: Beverly C. Tomek
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814764533
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Pennsylvania contained the largest concentration of early America’s abolitionist leaders and organizations, making it a necessary and illustrative stage from which to understand how national conversations about the place of free blacks in early America originated and evolved, and, importantly, the role that colonization—supporting the emigration of free and emancipated blacks to Africa—played in national and international antislavery movements. Beverly C. Tomek’s meticulous exploration of the archives of the American Colonization Society, Pennsylvania’s abolitionist societies, and colonizationist leaders (both black and white) enables her to boldly and innovatively demonstrate that, in Philadelphia at least, the American Colonization Society often worked closely with other antislavery groups to further the goals of the abolitionist movement. In Colonization and Its Discontents, Tomek brings a much-needed examination of the complexity of the colonization movement by describing in depth the difference between those who supported colonization for political and social reasons and those who supported it for religious and humanitarian reasons. Finally, she puts the black perspective on emigration into the broader picture instead of treating black nationalism as an isolated phenomenon and examines its role in influencing the black abolitionist agenda.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814764533
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Pennsylvania contained the largest concentration of early America’s abolitionist leaders and organizations, making it a necessary and illustrative stage from which to understand how national conversations about the place of free blacks in early America originated and evolved, and, importantly, the role that colonization—supporting the emigration of free and emancipated blacks to Africa—played in national and international antislavery movements. Beverly C. Tomek’s meticulous exploration of the archives of the American Colonization Society, Pennsylvania’s abolitionist societies, and colonizationist leaders (both black and white) enables her to boldly and innovatively demonstrate that, in Philadelphia at least, the American Colonization Society often worked closely with other antislavery groups to further the goals of the abolitionist movement. In Colonization and Its Discontents, Tomek brings a much-needed examination of the complexity of the colonization movement by describing in depth the difference between those who supported colonization for political and social reasons and those who supported it for religious and humanitarian reasons. Finally, she puts the black perspective on emigration into the broader picture instead of treating black nationalism as an isolated phenomenon and examines its role in influencing the black abolitionist agenda.