Local Schools: Exploring Their History

by Ronald E. Butchart

While exploring your nearby history, you will find that your community's schools have helped to shape its traditions and culture. Yet, how do you go about digging into your educational past? Fortunately, Local Schools provides this information, aiding you in your search. Prompting questions concerning educational experiences in your community and pointing you toward places to find answers, Local Schools will help you figure out what the schools in your community do and how they fit into the social and cultural context of your area.

Local Schools is Volume 1 in The Nearby History Series .

136 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1986

Reviews

[Dennis]

Great guide for researching history of local schools. I'm using it with high school students in my historical research class.

[Jamie Barringer (Ravenmount)]

Useful little book for anyone jumping into historical research, and especially useful for folks researching the history of local schools.