A Second Home: Missouri's Early Schools (Missouri Heritage Readers)

by Sue Thomas

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The one-room schoolhouse may be a thing of the past, but it is the foundation on which modern education rests. Sue Thomas now traces the progress of early education in Missouri, demonstrating how important early schools were in taming the frontier. ""A Second Home"" offers an in-depth and entertaining look at education in the days when pioneers had to postpone schooling for their children until they could provide shelter for their families and clear their fields for crops, while well-to-do families employed tutors or sent their children back east. Thomas tells of the earliest known English school at the...Read more
  • ISBN10 0826265669
  • ISBN13 9780826265661
  • Publish Date December 2006 (first published 1 August 2006)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint University of Missouri Press
  • Format eBook
  • Language English