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//SCHOOL: The Story of American Public Education//, is a dramatic four-part documentary series that chronicles the development of our nation’s public education system from the late 1770s to the 21st century.
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"Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America. " [|William Howard Taft] U.S. President, 1909-1913

//In 1887, the number of Jewish students entering secondary schools in the Pale is restricted to 10 percent. As in some towns Jews constitute 50 to 70 percent of the population, many high school classes remain half empty//. -- []

Kansas City Star March 6, 1912 Life in a Tenement House. Mary Antis, a Jewish Girl, Tells of the Hedley of Smells and Noises That Made Up Kansas City Star, published as The Kansas City Star; **Date:** 03-06-1912; **Volume:** 32; **Issue:** 171; **Page:** 11; @http://docs.newsbank.com/s/HistArchive/ahnpdoc/EANX/116FAC8464774420/0F20FECAAFCBE6ED

**From Plotzk to Boston** by Mary Antin (Google Books)

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========================================================================= //Mary Antin's folder of 5th grade homework had been taken out for a school group touring the Rare Books department.// //The pages were very brittle and only the librarian was allowed to touch the pages.// //She allowed me to photo the pages that she had shown the school group.// //She did mention that, because the pages were so brittle, she was going to try to have the entire collection digitized.// //(Kathy Grace, November 9, 2010)//



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