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Lucy Sprague was born in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of Otho A. S. Sprague and Lucia Atwood Sprague.Her father was a businessman. [3] She attended Radcliffe College from 1896 to 1900, graduating with honors in philosophy. [4]
The company was founded in 1938 by William Rufus Scott (1911–1997), [1] who was assisted by his wife Ethel McCullough Scott, and her brother, John C. McCullough. [1]With small children of their own, the Scotts had connections to the Bureau of Educational Experiments (later known as the Bank Street College of Education), which was promoting a new approach to children's education and ...
The Bank Street School for Children is a private coed preschool, elementary school, and middle school within the Bank Street College of Education. [13] [14] The school includes children in nursery through eighth grade, [14] split into three divisions: the lower school, for nursery through first grade; the middle school, for second through fourth grades; and the upper school, for fifth through ...
Bank Street promoted a new approach to children's education and literature, emphasizing the real world and the "here and now". [8] This philosophy influenced Brown's work; she was also inspired by the poet Gertrude Stein , whose literary style influenced Brown's own writing.
With the support from the Bureau of Educational Experiments, now known as Bank Street College of Education, [21] [22] the Play School expanded to brownstones on West 13th and 12th Streets, where it remains today, and was renamed the City and Country School. (See City and Country School for full history and contemporary profile.)
She organized what was eventually to be called the Bank Street College of Education. [14] In 1935, City and Country, in conjunction with Bank Street, Little Red Schoolhouse, Walden, Hessian Hills School, and Manumit formed the Associated Experimental Schools to coordinate cooperative buying and fund raising. The organization was abandoned by ...
Shael Polakow-Suransky (born January 10, 1972) is the president of the Bank Street College of Education. [1] Previously, he was the New York City Department of Education Chief Academic Officer and Senior Deputy Chancellor. [2] [3] [4]
Bella Savitzky was born on July 24, 1920, in New York City. [6] Both of her parents were Yiddish-speaking Jewish immigrants from Chernihiv, Russian Empire (now Ukraine). [7] [8] [9] Her mother, Esther (née Tanklevsky or Tanklefsky), was a homemaker who immigrated from Kozelets in 1902. [7]