Author: Stephen Beauregard Weeks
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2017-11-06
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780260401298
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Excerpt from History of Public School Education in Alabama Letter of transmittal Chapter i.-evolution of the State Growth of population of Alabama, 1800 - 1910 First centers of American settlement The linee of travel and the influence of roads on settlement The distribution of incoming settlers Chapter II. - Private schools before the Civil War Schools supported from private sources. Schools supported in part out of public funds Chapter III. - Administration of the sixteenth sections, 1819 - 1914 The laws of the thirties and the failure of the State bank J udge Porter's bill in 1847 - 48 Proposed consolidation, 1852 - 53 Transfer of management to State superintendent 1854 Auditor Reynolds's strictures, 1869 The law of 1881 lays foundation of a. State fund The act of 1899 and the case of Alabama Schmidt Principal of the sixteenth section fund, 1851 and 1912 Chapter iv.-the rise of public schools in Mobile, 1826 - 1865 Public schools reorganized 1852 Development,1853 - 1865 Chapter V. - The experimental period in the orgamzation of a, State system 1819 - 1854. The laws of 1839 - 40 Messages of Gov. Chapman and Gov. Collier m 1849. The hpuse report of 1851 - 52 Gen. Perry's reminiscences Chapter VI. - Organization of the public-school system, 1854 - 1856 Meek's report on education. The act of February W. F. Perry chosen first State superintendent The course of study and textbooks j The amended act of February Chapter VII. - The work of the public schools,1856 - 1865 The condition of schoolhouses Indifference of the people and weakness of the law Equalization and distribution of the sixteenth-section fund The Alabama educational association and the educational press Gabriel B. Duval becomes the second superintendent The Civil War and after. Chapter VIII - Reconstruction.' ln the public schools, 1865-187 6 I. The ihtermediate period,1865 - 1868 II. The old regime and the new, 1868 - 1876 The State board of education Reorganization and new legislation. The contest for supremacy in Mobile Income, misappropriations and investigatio Conservatives in power, 1870; economy and reform. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
