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Eleanor Murdoch Johnson
Eleanor Murdoch Johnson (1892–1987) was an American educator and editor. She founded the children's periodical ''My Weekly Reader'' and was its editor-in-chief from 1935 to 1961. She was a schoolteacher in Oklahoma and served as superintendent of schools in Ohio and Pennsylvania. Johnson served on the editorial board of ''Education'' magazine. She was a graduate of Columbia University and the University of Chicago. Early life and education Eleanor Murdoch Johnson was born in Washington County, Maryland, on December 10, 1892, to farmers Emma J. (née Shuff) and Richard Potts Johnson. She attended Colorado College from 1911 to 1912. She earned a degree from the Central State Teachers College in 1913. In 1925 she earned her PhB ''cum laude'' from the University of Chicago and an MA from Columbia University in 1932. Career Following her graduation from Central State Teachers College in Oklahoma, Johnson was a public school teacher. She taught in Lawton from 1913 to 1916, in Chi ...
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Washington County, Maryland
Washington County is a County (United States), county located in the U.S. state of Maryland. The population was 154,705 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Its county seat and largest city is Hagerstown, Maryland, Hagerstown. The county is part of the Western Maryland region of the state. Washington County was the first county in the United States to be named for the American Revolutionary War, Revolutionary War general (and later President of the United States of America, President) George Washington. Washington County is one of three Maryland counties recognized by the Appalachian Regional Commission as being part of Appalachia. The county borders southern Pennsylvania to the north, Northern Virginia to the south, and the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia, Martinsburg Panhandle of West Virginia to the south and west. Washington County is included in the Hagerstown-Martinsburg, West Virginia, Martinsburg, MD-West Virginia, WV Hagerstown metropolitan area, Metropo ...
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Lakewood, Ohio
Lakewood is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States, on the southern shore of Lake Erie. Established in 1889, it is one of Cleveland's historical streetcar suburbs and part of the Greater Cleveland, Cleveland metropolitan area. The population was 50,942 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making it the third largest city in Cuyahoga County, behind Cleveland and Parma, Ohio, Parma. History Establishment The area now called Lakewood was populated by the Ottawa, Potawatomi, Chippewa, Wyandot, Munsee, Delaware and Shawnee tribes until the Treaty of Ft. Industry pushed them west in 1805. Prior to the treaty, American settlers were prohibited from moving west of the Cuyahoga River. The treaty ceded 500,000 acres of some of the tribes' land to the United States for about $18,000 or 3.5 cents/acre. The Shawnee and Seneca, living with the Wyandot, were to get $1000 "...every year forever hereafter." In 1806, the area was formally surveyed as Defunct townships of Cuya ...
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A school is the educational institution (and, in the case of in-person learning, the building) designed to provide learning environments for the teaching of students, usually under the direction of teachers. Most countries have systems of formal education, which is sometimes compulsory. In these systems, students progress through a series of schools that can be built and operated by both government and private organization. The names for these schools vary by country (discussed in the '' Regional terms'' section below) but generally include primary school for young children and secondary school for teenagers who have completed primary education. An institution where higher education is taught is commonly called a university college or university. In addition to these core schools, students in a given country may also attend schools before and after primary (elementary in the U.S.) and secondary (middle school in the U.S.) education. Kindergarten or preschool provide some scho ...
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