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Antioch University New England, as it is currently known, is situated in a renovated furniture factory in Keene, New Hampshire, almost exactly midway between the former locations. It serves a student body of around 1,000 students, offering four certificate programs, master's degrees in twenty-three different programs, and three doctoral programs.
Though founded as Antioch Putney Graduate School in 1964, Antioch University New England has been located at its present campus in Keene, New Hampshire, since 1994. [26] There were 895 students enrolled as of 2020, and this campus is exclusively graduate. [27] All 11 graduate programs are all on-campus only, with none being offered online.
Education in the Thirteen Colonies during the 17th and 18th centuries varied considerably. Public school systems existed only in New England. In the 18th Century, the Puritan emphasis on literacy largely influenced the significantly higher literacy rate (70 percent of men) of the Thirteen Colonies, mainly New England, in comparison to Britain (40 percent of men) and France (29 percent of men).
University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law: Concord: Public Law school [30] 651 [30] 1973 [31] Antioch University New England: Keene: Private Master's university [32] 1,045 [32] 1964 [33] Colby-Sawyer College: New London: Private Baccalaureate college [34] 943 [34] 1837 [35] Dartmouth College: Hanover: Private Research university ...
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Education (2011) online review; comprehensive coverage in 135 articles; Newman, Joseph W., “Antebellum School Reform in the Port Cities of the Deep South,” in Southern Cities, Southern Schools: Public Education in the Urban South ed. by Plank, David N. and Ginsberg, Rick (Greenwood, 1990), 17–36.
Antioch University New England was the first graduate school offshoot, in 1964, and many others were established as well, including what ultimately became Antioch University Midwest (located on a new campus in Yellow Springs that opened in September 2007).
The Colonial Williamsburg Bray School taught Black children and is being restored 250 years later. The school house first opened on Sept. 29, 1760, and is now being preserved and honored.
The larger towns in New England opened grammar schools, the forerunner of the modern high school. [6] The most famous was the Boston Latin School, which is still in operation as a public high school. Hopkins School in New Haven, Connecticut was another. By the 1780s, most had been replaced by private academies.