Select a prompt and prepare a response to post on your Education History Weebly site. Your response must include at least one reference from both the Fraser and Urban texts. Responses must be a minimum of two paragraphs, contain a thesis statement, and supporting statements referenced from the assigned readings. Post your response on your Education History Website on or before the due date.
Describe the kind of society that Calvin Stowe or the Board of National Popular Education would have wanted and the role they saw schools playing in producing that society? How similar or how different is that from the goal of modern schooling?
It is clear that young women went west to teach for many different reasons. Describe what you think was the most important reason and defend your view.
The McGuffey’s Reader has been described as the ideal textbook for the schools of nineteenth-century America. Why would someone say that? Do you agree?