Kindergarten in the Company Town
on June 10, 2020
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by Joel Miller “If you want to see all we recommend in the ideal public school, go to Sparrows Point.” –M. Bates Stephens, Maryland State Schools Superintendent, 1906 [1] A company town might seem an odd place to find innovative public schooling, but Sparrows Point’s history provides exactly that. Before Bethlehem Steel occupied the […]
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