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Destined to Rule the Schools: Women and the Superintendency, 1873-1995
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Tells the story of women and school leadership in America from the common school era to the present. Offers an historical account of how teaching became women's work and the school superintendency men's.
Winner of the 1998 American Educational Studies Association Critics' Choice Titles
In 1909, when she became the superintendent of the Chicago schools, Ella Flagg Young proclaimed that women were "destined to rule the schools of every city." After all, women accounted for nearly eighty percen...
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