[Rarebooks] FS: First Girls High School in Boston

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Boston School Committee. Quincy, Josiah. REPORT OF A SUB-COMMITTEE OF 
THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE RECOMMENDING VARIOUS IMPROVEMENTS IN THE SYSTEM 
OF INSTRUCTION IN THE GRAMMAR AND WRITING SCHOOLS OF THIS CITY. 
Boston: Press of Nathan Hale, City Printer, 1828. 37 pp. Sm. 4to. 
Stitched paper wrappers.  Shoemaker 32420. First edition.

"The sub-committee of the School Committee, who were directed to 
consider the  subject of the high school for girls, whether it shall 
be continued, whether girls can be permitted to remain through the 
year at the grammar schools, or their time of continuance 
advantageously extended ..." The result was a recommendation to 
overhaul the entire school system, not to continue the girls' high 
school as too costly, but instead to work girls more into the primary 
schools, to segregate the schools by sex, and to extend their time 
there. An important and wide-ranging document on the history of the 
first high school for girls in Boston, and the interplay between 
education, finance, and gender expectations. Uncommon. OCLC shows 5 
copies. Edges darkened else a very good copy, scattered foxing. 
[27534] $150.00


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