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Subcategory In the Classroom contains 8 item(s).

	Deerfield Academy Student Roster 1799-1800 L99.104 For the first ten years after it opened on January 1, 1799, Deerfield Academy in Deerfield, Massachusetts, kept a written record of the students who attended each term.
	"The New England Primer" c. 1905 L99.139 Schoolbooks were profitable for printers in New England and New York as the northeast took the lead in the public education movement in the years of the New Republic.
	"A Practical System of Modern Geography: or View of the Present State of the World." 1831 L00.015 Given the author's strong New England bias, the subtitle of this 1831 geography school textbook, A View of the Present State of the World, might more accurately read "A New Englanders View of the Present State of the World."
	"Learning By Doing At Hampton" 1900 L01.005 Boarding schools like the Hampton Institute sought not merely to educate but also to indoctrinate young Native and African American students in the values and customs of white society.
	Nathan Loomis' Copy Book Mar 5, 1815 1984.14 Copy books were used in schoolroom exercises in the 19th century, this one, used by Nathan Loomis, to display skill with the pen. One Nathan Loomis' descendents was Amherst's Mabel Loomis Todd.
	Teacher Certificate Nov 29, 1858 L01.066 The school committee from Deerfield, Massachusetts, gave Sarah M. Briggs a certificate to teach in 1854. By then, three times more women than men taught in schools.
	"Reward of Merit" presented to Minnie Flagg c. 1875 L01.095 Elementary school students in the late 1700s through the turn of the 20th Century could earn "Rewards of Merit" from their teacher for good behavior and academic achievement.
	Botany notes from school book belonging to Agnes Higginson Mar 28, 1859 L01.116 Agnes Higginson Fuller, as a mid-19th century woman, had the uncommon experience of attending classes at an institution of higher education.