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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812865603321

Autore

McVey Frank LeRond <1869-1953, >

Titolo

The gates open slowly : a history of education in Kentucky / / Frank L. McVey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, Kentucky : , : University of Kentucky Press, , 1949

©1949

ISBN

0-8131-6393-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (332 p.)

Disciplina

370.9769

Soggetti

Education - Kentucky - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Bibliographical footnotes.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Preface; Contents; CHAPTERS; I. THE  PEOPLOE  OF KENTUCKY AND THEIR EDUCATIONAL BEGINNINGS; II. EARLY SCHOOLS AND SCHOOLTEACHERS; III. LAND-GRANT ACADEMIES; IV. THEY WALKED IN THE DARK; V . TEXTBOOKS AND SCHOOL CURRICULA DRIFT ALONG; VI. A CENTURY OF SECTARIAN EDUCATION; VII. AND FINALLY A STATE UNIVERSITY; VIII. THE FALLS CITY EVOLVES AN URBAN UNIVERSITY; IX. THE COLOR LINE IN EDUCATION; X . THE BIRTH, DEMISE, AND RESURRECTION OF THE STATE SCHOOL FUND; XI. TEACHER TRAINING BEGINS AND REACHES A PROFESSIONAL STATUS; XII. A KENTUCKY EDUCATION ASSOCIATION

XIII. EDUCATIONAL CAMPAIGNS AND SURVEYSXIV. ""THE TUMULT AND THE SHOUTING DIES""; XV . THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS MOVE FORWARD; XVI. INDEPENDENT DISTRICTS IN TOWNS AND CITIES ESTABLISH SCHOOLS; XVII. THE CRISES OF TODAY AND THE CHALLENGE OF TOMORROW; Appendixes; A . State Superintendents of Public Instruction 1836-1948; B . Colleges in Kentucky Accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools; C . The Evolution Controversy; D . State Aid for Negroes; E . Supplementary Education in Kentucky; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Sommario/riassunto

<P>Education in Kentucky has developed slowly, and even now the state ranks low in the nation in providing public funds for the development of its human resources. In this book the author, who was president of the University of Kentucky from 1917 to 1940, traces the



tortuous path of education in the state from the pioneer log schoolhouse to the modern universities of Kentucky and Louisville.</P>