Raising the standard of teaching… back in 1912

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Aug 24 2009

Raising the standard of teaching… back in 1912

Posted at 11:59 am under History of Education

A strong effort is being made to raise the standard of teaching in our public schools.

Wow, does that ever sound familiar? The more things change, the more they stay the same. And get a load of the teaching certificate requirements in Kansas in 1911. They had three levels of certification back then. They were starting to crack down on teachers that hadn’t completed high school.

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Dana Huffon 24 Aug 2009 at 7:43 pm 1

This is interesting. My great-grandmother taught in a one-room schoolhouse in the country in Texas, and according to my grandfather, she never quite finished high school. They were desperate for teachers, so they offered to send her to Normal School, but she hadn’t technically graduated.
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