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Publisher: Washington : Govt. Printing OfficePublication date: 1918Subjects: Education -- South DakotaEducational surveys -- South DakotaNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The University of San Diego is a Roman Catholic university in San Diego, California. USD (an abbreviation also used by the University of South Dakota) offers more than sixty bachelor's, master?s, and doctoral programs. The university consists of six schools: the School of Business Administration, the School of Leadership and Education Sciences, the School of Law, the School of Nursing & Health Science, the College of Arts & Sciences, and the Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies. Chartered in 1949, the University opened its doors to its first class of students in 1952 as the San Diego College for Women. Most Reverend Charles F. Buddy, D.D., then bishop of the Diocese of San Diego and Reverend Mother Rosalie Hill, RSCJ, a Superior Vicaress of the Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, chartered the institution from resources drawn from their respective organizations on a stretch of land known as "Alcalá Park," named for San Diego de Alcalá. ... Read more

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Technology can have a powerful effect on theeducation of our youth. The development of K-12technology standards, state testing of technologyproficiency, and the increasing numbers of computersin homes and classrooms reflects the expandingrelevance of technology in current society. Thisanalysis is based on data from a random sample, whichused a researcher-developed survey instrument. Thesedata reflect how math and science technology, levelsof teacher proficiency, and amount of student accessare used in elementary classrooms. In addition, thismanuscript chronicles teacher demographics, softwarepreferences, and teacher proficiency levels. Acomplete list of software titles and websites used byteachers are included in the appendix. Professionalsin the education field who are inspired to improveeducation with technology will find this bookenlightening. ... Read more

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In this collection of true tales, people from acrossSouth Dakota share their common experience and who how truly personaleducation can be.It's a chorus of memories sure to strke a chordwith the many millions who are the country school experience ... Read more

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ONE-ROOM COUNTRY SCHOOL: SOUTH DAKOTA STORIES delivers precisely what its title promises, that is, a collection of short narratives by former teachers and students who taught and studied in one-room, multi-grade schools in mostly eastern and mid South Dakota, generally in the 1930s and 1940s.A few of the stories pre- and postdate these two decades, a very few being as recent as the 1990s.

The recollections range widely, including, for example, care of the schoolhouse, episodes involving the outhouse, the crude heating systems (and sometimes fires), teaching methodologies, political indoctrination (through the Young Citizens Leagues, or YCL), varmints infiltrating the classroom, dangerous winter storms, Christmas programs, and other memories from the contributors to this collection.In addition to the first-person recollections recounted here, an introduction provides a brief history of early South Dakota schools, and a photography section furnishes visual reenforcement of the stories.

The book is certainly not over-long, consisting of only 139 pages, of which twelve are devoted to photographs.There is, in addition, a brief bibliography of apparently similar books, but with no annotations to suggest the nature of each book.

The vignettes comprising ONE-ROOM COUNTRY SCHOOL paint vivid mental pictures for the reader of at least one facet of the lives of school-age children living in sparsely populated areas of the northern Great Plains in the early and mid twentieth century.I was particularly struck by the multilingualism of South Dakota around 70 years ago.Both Native Lakota children and children of recent European immigrant families had to face linguistic hurdles in schools where teachers could not understand their languages.I was also struck by the fact that, while few in number, tiny, one- and two-teacher schools are only now truly dying out on the vast and lightly populated plains of South Dakota.

I highly recommend ONE-ROOM COUNTRY SCHOOL to every reader who is at all interested in the nineteenth-century history of education in the granger states of the nation, to every reader who ever wonders about the lives of children a half-century or more ago, and to every reader who enjoys chuckling over personal recollections that, more often than not, lean toward the humorous, at least in hindsight.

If I "grade this book down" at all, it is because it is all too brief and could have held my interest for many, many more pages than it actually contains.I also found the bibliography of very limited usefulness in that it lacks any annotations describing the relatively few books listed.Otherwise, the book is a very enjoyable and fast read, and should be of interest not only to adults but also to contemporary public school students by showing them some of the things they have missed by having to attend school in the 21st century![...] ... Read more

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The author traced the history of Augustana College, from its foundation of the Normal School to its merger with Augustana, and the decisions to clsoe the Normal School and develop an Education Department as part of the college curriculum. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Worldmark Encyclopedia of the States, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 10413 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Details current geographical, social, and political data, historical narrative, and statistical information on the 50 states, District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Caribbean and Pacific dependencies of the U.S. ... Read more