Fidler, Richard
Summary: How do today’s kids compare with those a hundred years ago on tests designed to measure how much they have learned? How did teachers in one-room schools manage a classroom with eight grades and eleven subjects? What was it like to be a high school student in 1924? What was a high school teacher’s day like a hundred years ago? How did the mission and character of schools change over the course...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mission Point Press 0000
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Fidler, Richard
Summary: The story of how the purposes of education, curriculum and instruction, and teachers and students changed over the course of a century and a half in a Northern Michigan Community
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Publisher / Publication Date: Richard Fidler
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Keithan, Mary
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 2008
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Summary: The one-room schoolhouse pays homage to this Amerian icon. Once 200,000 dotted the countryside, today only about 450 are still in use.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universe 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 372.125 ROCChurchill, Ward.
Summary: Ward (American Indian studies, U. of Colorado, Boulder) traces the history of removing Native American children from their homes to residential schools as part of government policies, 1880s-1980s, which he views as genocidal. He includes photos of victims of "residential school syndrome," and a list of these schools in the US and Canada.
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Publisher / Publication Date: City Lights 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.829 CHUSummary: Each section features a lavish double-page image of an influential painting that defines each artistic style. Seminal works of genius are portrayed in their historical context, with attention paid to the culture of the time and the lives of their creators.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2013
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Summary: A history of 175 years of teaching in America demonstrates that teachers have always borne the brunt of shifting, often impossible expectations. In other nations, public schools are one thread in a quilt that includes free universal childcare, health care, and job training. Here, schools are the whole cloth. Today we look around the world at countries like Finland and South Korea, whose...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.1 GOLSummary: Through narration and selections from performed works tells the story of the development of the Interlochen Arts Academy from its beginnings as Joe Maddy's National Music Camp through the present.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Interlochen Center for the Arts 1991
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LOCAL JOEHoose, Phillip M.
Summary: "By winning the state high school basketball championship in 1955, ten black teens from an Indianapolis school meant to be the centerpiece of racially segregated education in Indiana shattered the myth of their inferiority. Their brilliant coach had fashioned an unbeatable team from a group of boys born in the South and raised in poverty. Anchored by the astonishing Oscar Robertson, a future...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 796.323 HOOLajimodiere, Denise K.
Summary: Education professor Denise Lajimodiere's interest in American Indian boarding school survivors stories evolved from recording her father and other family members speaking of their experiences. The journey to record survivors stories led her through the Dakotas and Minnesota and into the personal and private space of boarding school survivors. While there, she heard stories that they had never...
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Dakota State University Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.829 LAJJones, Dan C.
Summary: Thousands of Indigenous children were forcibly sent to attend boarding schools specifically created by the government to teach them the ways of white society and punish them for observing their own cultures. Little Moon There Are No Stars Tonight was only four years old when she was removed from her home and sent to Chilocco -- and her grandson, the author, was working there as maintenance...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Focus 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 371.829 JONAlcott, Louisa May
Summary: Follows the adventures of Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer as they try to make their school for boys a happy, comfortable, and stimulating place.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION AlcO'Neill, Alexis
Summary: Learn how Melvil Dewey's love of organization and words drove him to develop and implement his Dewey Decimal system, leaving a significant and lasting impact in libraries across the country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC O'NEJanicki, Peggy
Summary: "This illustrated nonfiction picture book tells the true story of how a group of girls at a residential school sewed secret pockets into their clothes to hide food."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2023
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Summary: In 1933, as Hitler came to power, schoolteacher Anna Essinger hatched a daring and courageous plan: to smuggle her entire school out of Nazi Germany. Anna had read Mein Kampf and knew the terrible danger that Hitler's hate-fueled ideologies posed to her pupils. She knew that to protect them she had to get her pupils to the safety of England.But the safe haven that Anna struggled to create in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Public Affairs 2022
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Summary: "From one of our most pre eminent writers, a tale that captures the shifting meanings of the past , and how our experience colors those meanings. Lloyd Wilkinson Petrie, one of the seven surviving trustees of the now defunct (for 34 years) Temple Academy for Boys, is preparing a memoir of his days at the school, intertwined with a description of present events. As he navigates, with faltering...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: In the poverty of the Appalachian coal country in 1908, eight-year-old Minna's life gets even more difficult after her father dies of black lung, and that winter she cannot go to school because she does not have a coat--until the quilting mothers make her a coat using pieces of cloth from their own lives, each with a special story behind it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC MILJohnson, Dana Kenneth
Summary: Through its history, Montcalm County has had 177 schools. Amazingly, 89 of them are still standing. This book documents those schools in descriptive text and vivid full-color photographs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Dana Kenneth Johnson] 2021
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Summary: "Ottawa County's 17 townships once contained at least 149 schools, of which over 70 are still standing. This book explores the historic schools of Ottawa County, Michigan, through vintage maps, descriptive text and colorful photos."--Page 4 of cover
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Dana Kenneth Johnson] 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.415 JOHJohnson, Dana Kenneth
Summary: Gratiot County, Michigan, has had at least 184 schoolhouses within its borders, but only 39 of those remain standing. This book chronicles those historic schools in photos and text.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Dana Kenneth Johnson] 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.449 JOHJohnson, Dana Kenneth
Summary: his book provides a history of the schools of Alger County, in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, along with additional historical information on its various towns.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Dana Kenneth Johnson] 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4932 JOHLilac, Jamie
Summary: Beau Bellegarde, a second-born son, makes a deal: if he can turn Evie Clément, the unapproachable baker's daughter, into the winner of the Court Ball, making her the most desired bachelorette in Paris, he inherits the family fortune, but his target has plans of her own.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023