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The small historically French settlements that became part of the United States in 1803 had limited schooling. Schools were established in several Missouri towns; by 1821, they existed in the towns of St. Louis, St. Charles, Ste. Genevieve, Florissant, Cape Girardeau, Franklin, Potosi, Jackson, and Herculaneum, and in rural areas in both Cooper and Howard counties.
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.
Early Educational Leadership in the Ohio Valley (1932). Knight, George W. and John Rogers Commons. The history of higher education in Ohio (1891) online; covers each school, including the defunct ones; McCormick, Virginia E. Educational Architecture in Ohio: From One-Room Schools and Carnegie Libraries to Community Education Villages (2001)
The Cornell School was built in Licking County, Ohio in 1886, and a school district in the St. Albans Township was created around it. [ 1 ] [ 6 ] The Cornell School was attended by children inhabiting the rural areas within the borders of the newly established school district, and eachers were often young, uneducated women or famers who were ...
Founded as "LeMoyne Normal and Commercial School" [12] (elementary school until 1870) Yes Lincoln University: Chester County: Pennsylvania: 1854 Public The first degree-granting HBCU. Founded as "Ashmun Institute" Yes Lincoln University of Missouri: Jefferson City: Missouri: 1866 Public Founded as "Lincoln Institute" [13] Yes Livingstone ...
[173] [174] However, in line with the anti-elitist policy, the NYA set up its own high schools, entirely separate from the public school system or academic schools of education. [ 175 ] [ 176 ] Despite appeals from Ickes and Eleanor Roosevelt, Howard University –the federally operated school for blacks—saw its budget cut below Hoover ...
The following are approximate tallies of current listings by county. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of March 13, 2009 [2] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [3]
This is an alphabetical list of school districts in Missouri, sorted first by the state supervisors of instruction regions, the counties each region serves, and then alphabetically. Many districts have the letters "C" or "R" in their name, followed by a numeral.