Uncle
Uncle

Author: Irena McCammon Scott

Publisher: Purdue University Press

Published: 2019-07-15

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 1557539308

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In the most comprehensive biographical study of John Purdue (c. 1802-1876) to date, Purdue's great-great-grandniece describes her travels to the diverse places where Purdue had lived in order to learn about the mysterious relative known in her family as Uncle. Using fresh, unpublished source materials-including Purdue's personal correspondence, business ledgers, and the family oral histories-the author examines Purdue's beginning among illiterate, immigrant, Pennsylvania mountain-hollow folks. Uncle challenges a commonly held belief that Purdue was a cold-hearted business mogul. Instead the author shows Purdue as a human being and as a generous family man with a visionary nature.

Oversight Hearing on the Even Start Program
Oversight Hearing on the Even Start Program

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary, and Vocational Education

Publisher:

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13:

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These transcripts provide testimony given on the implementation of the Even Start Family Literacy Program, a program designed to help parents work with their children to improve the educational opportunities for both. Prepared statements and testimony was given by John T. MacDonald, Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education, United States Department of Education; Parker Coble, director of a program for migrant children; the coordinator of, and a parent and a student involved in, Even Start projects; and Sharon Darling, president of the National Center for Family Literacy. Testimony concerned benefits of and problems with the Even Start program. Topics discussed included: (1) services provided to low-income families; (2) use of Head Start and Chapter 1 services by Even Start programs; (3) Even Start services for migrant families; (4) parent involvement in education; and (5) the need to continue growth and expansion of the Even Start Program. Several specific Even Start projects are highlighted. (SM)