Reports, addresses, and institutional histories of various normal schools in New Jersey, 1847-1938

0.2 linear feet (5 loose volumes)

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This collection contains a report on normal schools by the Committee on Business to a Convention of Friends of Education held in Mount Holly, NJ (1847); published addresses delivered by William Phelps on the development of normal schools in New Jersey (1857); and booklets on the institutional histories of normal schools in Trenton and Newark (1930-1938).

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TCNJ catalog links:
Desultory thoughts on educational science, and its relation to human progress. An address delivered before the Dialectic and Franklin societies of the New Jersey State normal school, January 15th, 1857. https://tcnj.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01COLLNJ_INST/921vpg/alma99834403405191
State Teachers College and State Normal School, Trenton, N.J. : past, present, and future. https://tcnj.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01COLLNJ_INST/921vpg/alma991868923405191

JCFPL catalog:
State Teachers College and State Normal School, Trenton, N.J. : past, present, and future. https://jepl.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/default/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ILS$002f0$002fSD_ILS:256407/one?qu=State+Teachers+College+and+State+Normal+School+Trenton
New Jersey State Teachers College at Newark : twenty-fifth year. https://jepl.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/default/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ILS$002f0$002fSD_ILS:254926/one?qu=New+Jersey+State+Teachers+College+at+Newark
Report on normal schools, made by the Committee on Business, to a Convention of the Friends of Education, held in Mount Holly, on the 18th November, and 2nd December, 1847. https://jepl.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/default/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ILS$002f0$002fSD_ILS:178340/one?qu=Report+on+normal+schools%2C+made+by+the+Committee+on+Business
Desultory thoughts on educational science, and its relation to human progress. An address delivered before the Dialectic and Franklin societies of the New Jersey State normal school, January 15th, 1857. https://jepl.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/default/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ILS$002f0$002fSD_ILS:178339/one?qu=Desultory+thoughts+on+educational+science%2C+and+its+relation+to+human+progress
Normal schools: their relations to the primary and higher institutions of learning, and to the welfare and progress of society, together with their future in the United States. https://jepl.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/default/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ILS$002f0$002fSD_ILS:178341/one?qu=Normal+schools%3A+their+relations+to+the+primary+and+higher+institutions+of+learning

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