Historical sketches and photographs of school systems in cities and villages, [ca. 1850-1920]
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New York (State). Education Dept.
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New York State's education system has antecedents in both English and Dutch colonial education. The Dutch, concerned with providing widespread general education, established tax-supported common schools under church and state control in most of New Netherland's communities. Under the English, who established a system of private or church-supported academies, emphasis was placed on advanced education of the elite and the common school system of the Dutch all but disappeared. In 1754 ...
University of the State of New York
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Finegan, Thomas E. (Thomas Edward), 1866-1932
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New York (State). Education Department. Assistant Commissioner for Elementary Education.
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These histories and photographs were solicited by the Department in a letter from Deputy Commissioner and Assistant Commissioner for Elementary Education Thomas E. Finegan to city superintendents of schools in 1916. The sketches, generally written by the local superintendent, were to be published as an appendix to the Department's annual report under the title, "The History of the Development of the School Systems in the Cities and Villages Whose Population is 5,000 or over," but it never appear...
