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World Library Foundation Newsletter: August 2020, Volume 4, Issue 8

The Schoolroom at Home: Learning at Home as a New School Year Begins

World Library Foundation Newsletter Dept.

2020

Abstract

The World Library Foundation's newsletter for August 2020 (Volume 4, Issue 8). The Schoolroom at Home: as many children begin the school year at the kitchen table, the people who learned and taught at home, from Abraham Lincoln's borrowed books to Pestalozzi, Froebel, Charlotte Mason, John Stuart Mill and Maria Montessori, born 150 years ago this month. Also in this issue: the Executive Director's message, "Back to School, at Home"; Votes for Women at 100, on Tennessee's ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment on August 18, 1920; and from the Library Exhibits, Spirits and Séances.

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