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The First Kindergarten in Watertown, Wisconsin, is the building that housed the first kindergarten in the United States, opened in 1856. [1] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972 [ 2 ] [ 3 ] for its significance to the history of education.
On May 2, 1929, a memorial tablet was dedicated in Watertown, Wisconsin, a few feet from the site of the building where she founded the first kindergarten in America. "In memory of Mrs. Carl Schurz (Margarethe Meyer Schurz) Aug. 27, 1833 -- March 15, 1876, who established on this site the first kindergarten in America, 1856."
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In 1871 Blow traveled to New York, where she spent a year being trained at the New York Normal Training Kindergarten, operated by Fröbel devotee Maria Kraus-Boelté.Blow returned to St. Louis in 1873 and opened the nation's first public kindergarten in Des Peres School in Carondelet, [2] which by then had been annexed by the City of St. Louis.
Most states adopted one version or another of the system he established in Massachusetts, especially the program for "normal schools" to train professional teachers. [109] Free schooling was available through some of the elementary grades. Graduates of these schools could read and write, though not always with great precision.
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Some private schools, and public schools, are offering pre-kindergarten (also known as pre-K) as part of elementary school. Twelve states (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Vermont) as well as the District of Columbia offer some form of universal pre-kindergarten according to the Education Commission of the States (ECS).
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