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"County Normal" above an entrance to the normal school in Viroqua, Wisconsin An entrance gate at Beijing Normal University, an example of a comprehensive research university established as a normal school. A normal school or normal college is an institution created to train teachers by educating them in the norms of pedagogy and curriculum.
Normal schools in the United States in the 19th century were developed and built primarily to train elementary-level teachers for the public schools. The term “normal school” is based on the French école normale, a sixteenth-century model school with model classrooms where model teaching practices were taught to teacher candidates.
Plattsburgh Normal and Training School, early-1910s. At a meeting held on June 28, 1889, it was decided the new normal school would be on land known as "the former athletic grounds", bounded on the north by Court Street, on the east by Wells Street, on the south by Freethinker Street, and on the west by Beckman Street. [10]
Normal School for Colored Girls (now known as University of the District of Columbia) was established in Washington, D.C. in 1851 as an institution of learning and training for young African-American women, especially to train teachers. [2] [3] As Miner Normal School, it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The school has two student publications: The Beacon, [17] a weekly newspaper, and Spires, a literary magazine published each year. Radio Station WJJW broadcasts for 140 hours each week, and episodes of the student-run college TV news program, Beacon Web News, are produced once a week.
Until 1879, the normal schools for boys and girls provided mainly moral and religious education. During the Restoration (1814–1830) and then the July Monarchy (1830–1848), the number of normal schools for boys reached 13 in 1829, 47 in 1832, [4] and 56 on June 28, 1833, according to the table [5] drawn up by the Minister François Guizot on July 24, 1833, in his circular letter to the ...
Reed Magazine is an annual literary journal published by San Jose State University. Two semesters of the Department of English and Comparative Literature's 133 class (comprising graduate and undergraduate students) solicit, edit, and promote the magazine for each year.
San José State University traces back to 1857 when the institution operated as a normal school for the San Francisco's public school system.It grew in size and scope until May 2, 1862 when the California State Senate adopted a funding bill to turn it into the flagship campus of the California State Normal School System.