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Bank Street College of Education

1992

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The Post Office : A Social Studies Curriculum For Seven And Eight Year Olds, Carol Ribner Jan 1992

The Post Office : A Social Studies Curriculum For Seven And Eight Year Olds, Carol Ribner

Graduate Student Independent Studies

This paper presents a curriculum that I have developed and used with my class of second graders over the past three years. The curriculum is the study of the Post Office as part of a study of the neighborhood, and the subsequent planning and running of a schoolwide post office.


W.E.B. Dubois: On The Importance Of Education, Valerie R. Distant Jan 1992

W.E.B. Dubois: On The Importance Of Education, Valerie R. Distant

Graduate Student Independent Studies

How can I introduce a man like William Edward Burghardt DuBois in a few words? I have studied his life and times for little over a year now. For over 30 years, he was undoubtedly the most articulate, fearless and widely read spokesperson for equal rights of black Americans. (Wilson, W., 1970, p. ix) Moreover, he was a college professor, a researcher, an editor, a promoter of peace and a Pan-Africanist. Some would say he was arrogant, vain, and stubborn but I would say he was a self-confident born leader.

I heard the name W.E.B. DuBois for many years but …