SCHOOL BOARDS AND SWAMP YANKEES

EDUCATION IN RI FROM THE EARLY AMERICAN THROUGH THE GILDED AGE:

Common Core Standards? Charter Schools? State testing? Arguments over education are nothing new. Join us as RI historian Mark Gardner explains the controversies over education in the US from the American Revolution through the 1800's and the gradual acceptance of state-mandated public schools by Rhode Island's fiercely independent farming towns. Mark is a RI teacher and historian of early politics, government and community studies.

The presentation includes 19th-century school books actually used by local residents in Coventry's one-room schools and other historical materials from school days long-past. These are on display for one night only, courtesy of the Western RI Civic Historical Society, the Paine House Museum, and New England Farm & Artist.
All Educator's are welcome!
Please call Jane at 822-9104 to register.