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Smith Elementary School or Smith Elementary may refer to the following elementary schools: Smith Elementary in Aurora, Illinois, part of West Aurora Public School District 129. Smith Elementary in Austin, Texas, part of Del Valle Independent School District. Smith Elementary in Berea, Ohio, a former school part of Berea City School District.
As of the 2017–18 academic year, there are approximately 4,014,800 K–12 teachers in the United States (3,300,000 traditional public school teachers; 205,600 teachers in public charter schools; and 509,200 private school teachers). [224]
Albert Cullum (November 1921 – July 2003) was an American Elementary school teacher in the 1960s. Instead of the standard Dick and Jane style of teaching, he opted to introduce his children to classic literature such as Shakespeare and Greek Dramas. Unlike other teachers at the time, Cullum strongly believed that learning and play could be ...
The school upon a hill: Education and society in colonial New England. Yale University Press. (1974). Bernard Bailyn. Education in the Forming of American Society (U of North Carolina Press, 1960), colonial era; Brown, Richard D. The strength of a people: The idea of an informed citizenry in America, 1650–1870 (U of North Carolina Press, 1996)
The free school movement, also known as the new schools or alternative schools movement, was an American education reform movement during the 1960s and early 1970s that sought to change the aims of formal schooling through alternative, independent community schools.
He most recently served as principal at Gateway Elementary School in St. Johns. Richard also has experience as dean of students, an elementary teacher and an early childhood special education teacher.
Modern systems of education in Europe derive their origins from the schools of the High Middle Ages. Most schools during this era were founded upon religious principles with the primary purpose of training the clergy. Many of the earliest universities, such as the University of Paris founded in 1160, had a Christian basis.
Normal schools in the United States in the 19th century were developed and built primarily to train elementary-level teachers for the public schools. The term “normal school” is based on the French école normale, a sixteenth-century model school with model classrooms where model teaching practices were taught to teacher candidates.