TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fraser,James W.
TI  - Preparing America's teachers: a history 
SN  - 0807747343 (pbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - LB 1715 F841p 2007
U1  - 370.711 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New York
PB  - Teachers College Press
KW  - Teachers
KW  - Training of
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Formación profesional de maestros
KW  - Estados Unidos
KW  - Capacitación docente
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-273) and index; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; 1; Schooling teachers for a new nation, 1750-1830 --; Colleges --; Academies --; Home schooling, dame schools, and a new common school teacher --; Missionaries and indigenous teachers --; Conclusion --; 2; Educating women, women as educators, 1800-1860 --; Seminaries for women teachers - Troy, Ipswich, Mount Holyoke, and more --; Preparing women to teach - from individual schools to a national movement --; Preparing women to teach - changes in ideology, changes in practice --; 3. The; birth of the normal school, 1830-1870 --; Creating a new institution : the state normal school --; Opening the Massachusetts normal schools --; The; curriculum : what was taught at the Massachusetts normal schools --; An; alternative vision --; The; slow spread of the normal school model before the Civil War --; So did the normal schools prepare teachers? --; 4; Teachers' institutes, 1830-1920 --; The; origins of Teachers' institutes --; The; heyday of the Teachers' Institute --; Teachers' institutes, examinations, and certification : a case study --; An; institution that would not die --; 5; High schools and city normal schools, 1830-1920 --; A; fresh look at the nineteenth-century high school--; The; high school normal curriculum - preparing city teachers --; High schools, gender, and the road to women's true profession --; Rural high schools for rural teachers --; Beyond high school : from city high schools to city normal schools and colleges --; 6; Normal institutes, missionary colleges, and county training schools : preparing African American teachers in  the segregated South, 1860-1940 --; Informal preparation in slavery and freedom --; The; Hampton-Tuskegee model : normal and agricultural institutes --; Missionary colleges and normal schools --; County training schools --; 7; The heyday of the normal school, 1870-1920 --; Just what was a normal school? --; An; institution whose time had come - growth between 1870 and 1920 -; Changing admissions, changing curriculum changing standards --; The; search for college status --; How important were the normal schools in preparing the nation's teachers? --; 8; Universities create departments and schools of education, 1870-1930 --; Colleges and universities have always prepared teachers --; University chairs, departments, and schools of education --; The; growth of high schools and the need for high school teachers --; Accreditation - the search for order --; Teachers colleges fight back --; 9; Teachers for cities, teachers for immigrants, 1870-1940 --; Hunter College and the New York story --; New York was not alone : Chicago, Cincinnati, Detroit --; The; kindergarten movement in teacher education --; 10; Every teacher a college graduate, 1920-1965 --; Normal schools become teachers colleges --; Snapshot - state teachers colleges during the 1930-1931 academic year --; The; National Survey of the Education of Teachers --; Teachers colleges become "just colleges" --; A; college degree  becomes the norm --; 11. A; new status quo and its critics, 1960-1985 --; A; midcentury consensus about the education of teachers? --; The; fund for the advancement of education --; The; Master of Arts in Teaching Degree - an effort to bridge the gap --; The; new critics : Arthur Bestor, James D. Koerner, James Bryant Conant --; The; power of the status quo --; 12; Preparing teachers in the era of a nation at risk, 1965-2000 --; The; Teacher Corps --; The; Center for Educational Renewal and a new sense of urgency --; Holmes and Carnegie - what the reports recommended and what they changed --; Implementation in Massachusetts - a case study --; The; crisis in racial diversity in the teaching profession --; The; Holmes group becomes the Holmes partnership --; Afterword : Teachers for a new millennium, 2000- --; What matters most - the National Commission on Teaching and America's future --; Regulation and deregulation in a conservative ascendancy --; Toward the future - clarity, diversity, and new tensions --; Notes --; For further reading --; Index --; About the author
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