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Morice, Linda C. – History of Education, 2012
This paper examines the role of place in the reform efforts of two teachers who established Miss White's Home School in Concord, Massachusetts (USA). Flora and Mary White rebelled against the prevailing industrial model of instruction in tax-supported schools where they taught. As a solution, they moved to Concord--a nonconformist town with a…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Boarding Schools, Municipalities, Progressive Education
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Mendelsson, David – History of Education, 2009
Between 1965 and 1979 the demand for places at Jewish day schools in England rose dramatically. In the preceding decades, most parents sent their children to state non-denominational schools, showing little interest in providing their children with a solid Jewish education. Sunday or after-school Hebrew classes, rarely extending beyond Bar/Bat…
Descriptors: State Schools, Private Schools, Jews, Day Schools