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  2. History of education in Chicago - Wikipedia

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    "Free Public Schools of Chicago" Eclectic Journal of Education and Literary Review (January 15, 1851). 2#20 online; Havighurst, Robert J. The public schools of Chicago: a survey for the Board of Education of the City of Chicago (1964). online; Henry, Nelson B. “Financial Support and Administration of the Chicago Public Schools.”

  3. List of university and college name changes in the United ...

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    Current Name Former Name(s) Year of Change Adams State University: Adams State College 2012 [1] University of Advancing Technology: CAD Institute; University of Advancing Computer Technology 1996, 2002 Adventist University of Health Sciences: Florida Hospital College of Health Sciences 2012 [2] Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University

  4. History of the University of Chicago - Wikipedia

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    A city and its universities: Public policy in Chicago, 1892-1919 (UNC Press Books, 2017) online. Dunn, William N. Pragmatism and the origins of the policy sciences: rediscovering Lasswell and the Chicago school (Cambridge University Press, 2019). Dzuback, Mary Ann. Robert M. Hutchins: Portrait of an Educator (1991) Eldred, Juliet Sprung.

  5. Chicago Public Schools - Wikipedia

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    Chicago Public Schools were the most racial-ethnically separated among large city school systems, according to research by The New York Times in 2012, [47] as a result of most students' attending schools close to their homes. In the 1970s the Mexican origin student population grew in CPS, although it never exceeded 10% of the total CPS student ...

  6. History of education in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The most famous was the Boston Latin School, which is still in operation as a public high school. As its name implies, the purpose of Boston Latin, and similar later schools, was to teach Latin (and Greek), which were required for admission to Harvard College and other Colonial colleges. [17] Hopkins School in New Haven, Connecticut, was ...

  7. History of Chicago - Wikipedia

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    By 1857, Chicago was the largest city in what was then called the Northwest. In 20 years, Chicago grew from 4,000 people to over 90,000. Chicago surpassed St. Louis and Cincinnati as the major city in the West and gained political notice as the home of Stephen Douglas, the 1860 presidential nominee of the Northern Democrats.

  8. Bibliography of Chicago history - Wikipedia

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    “Visiting Chicago Schools.—(II).” The Journal of Education, vol. 55, no. 22, 1902, p. 344. online; Havighurst, Robert J. The public schools of Chicago: a survey for the Board of Education of the City of Chicago (1964) Thompson, George J., et al. “Chicago Schools. In the Eyes of the Committee of the Federation of Labor.”

  9. Timeline of Chicago history - Wikipedia

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    Chicago incorporated as a city. [1] Chicago receives its first charter. [3] Rush Medical College is founded two days before the city was chartered. It is the first medical school in the state of Illinois which is still operating. The remaining 450 Potawatomi left Chicago. 1840