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MU High School was established and accredited by the NCA in 1999 as a program of the University of Missouri's Center for Distance and Independent Study (CDIS). The launch of MU High School was part of a broader trend of university-affiliated online high schools started by brick-and-mortar universities like Stanford University's Stanford University Online High School and Indiana University ...
A Second Home: Missouri's Early Schools (U of Missouri Press, 2006) online; a scholarly history; Troen, Selwyn K. "Popular education in nineteenth century St. Louis." History of Education Quarterly 13.1 (1973): 23-40. Troen, Selwyn K. The Public and the Schools: Shaping the St. Louis System, 1838–1920 (1975), a major scholarly study online
The school was known during its construction as Union Avenue High School. The school was renamed Soldan High School upon opening, in honor of Frank Louis Soldan, the superintendent of St. Louis schools from 1895 until his death in 1908. [3] Land acquisition costs for the building were $10,000, and construction cost $630,000. [4]
The Missouri Digital Heritage Initiative is a collaborative effort that expands the amount of information available online about Missouri's past. In 2007, Secretary of State Robin Carnahan proposed this landmark initiative to further Missourians’ access to information about the history of Missouri and local communities.
Missouri Historical Review 79 (April 1985): 357–372. online; Eisenman, Harry J. "Origins of engineering education in Missouri", Missouri Historical Review (1969) 63#4 pp 451–460. online; Huber, Patrick, and Foster, Stephen "Making Boys into Miners: The Freshman Fight and Hazing at the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy, 1903–1945."
Administration of primary and secondary public schools in the state is conducted by the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. [2] Education is compulsory from ages seven to seventeen in Missouri, commonly but not exclusively divided into three tiers: elementary school, middle school or junior high school, and high school.
The high school was established on Eleventh Street in St. Louis between Poplar and Spruce Street, in response to demands to provide educational opportunities, following a requirement that school boards support black education after Republicans passed the "radical" Constitution of 1865 in Missouri [8] that also abolished slavery.
Blees Military Academy, also known as Still-HiIdreth Osteopathic Sanatorium, was an historic military academy located in Macon, Missouri. The academy operated between 1899 and 1915. The old Academic Hall and Gymnasium of Blees Academy were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. [1]