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Title
The Massachusetts Teacher...Extra: Fifteenth Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board of Education
Creator
Sears, Barnas, 1802-1880, author
Date Created and/or Issued
1852
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Prints and Ephemera
Rights Information
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Description
One pamphlet, copyright 1852, entitled The Massachusetts Teacher...Extra: Fifteenth Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board of Education, by Barnas Sears, published by Samuel Coolidge, Boston. Printed at the head of the title is: "Educational Department ... No. 2." The pamphlet is 24 numbered pages in length and is not illustrated. In it Sears highlights "errors and mistakes [which are] highly injurious" to effective instruction and presents "appropriate remedies" and other suggestions. The two titled sections of the report are "The Primary School" and "The Grammar School." The report ends with a general summary of statistics "relating to the Public Schools of the Commonwealth." It is signed "Barnas Sears, Secretary of the Board of Education", and dated Boston, December 10, 1851.
Type
image
Format
image/jpeg
Extent
5 5/8 in. W x 8 13/16 in. H ; 14.3 cm. W x 22.4 cm. H
Identifier
Box 44 Env. 01
33669
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p9539coll1/id/5978
Subject
Miscellaneous Pamphlets/Books
Source
Diana Korzenik Collection of Art Education Ephemera
Instructional Materials
Prints and Ephemera, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance
Korzenik, Diana, 1941-, former owner.

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