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Title: What Is Wrong with American Schools?
Identifier(s): video:1456
Description: Bob Hauser takes on the Achievment Gap in American education, using the Department of Defense Education Authority (DODEA) as a prime example.
Subject: Education, History; Education, Equality; Standardized testing; United States. Department of Defence. Education Authority.; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2017-11-09

Title: O’Connor, Eliza Harriot to Sarah Franklin Bache, 1787 June 14
Identifier(s): text:198840
Description: Letter from Eliza Harriot O'Conner to Sally Bache. O'Conner thanks Bache for her support of her plan, "an attempt to smooth the way to Science."
Subject: Women--History--18th century; Social networks--18th century; Women--Education--History
Date: 1787-06-14

Title: Haines, Catharine cypher book, 1776; Catharine Haines Hart shorne : "Cypher Book"
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:7937
Description: Catherine Haines' cypher book which shows her education in mathematics including various forms of addition, subtraction, division, and multiplication as well as mathematical tables, weights, measurements, etc. The book shows Catharine working through word problems such as calculating the number of quarts and pints in 17 gallons. Additionally, a number of mathematical rules are written out such as the golden rule and a description of Inverse Proportion. At the end of the volume isa day book, perhaps Reuben Haines', that includes purchases made as well as other transactions as well as a ledger all dated in 1775.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Lived Experience; Women--History--18th century; Family life--18th century; Women--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Social conditions; Women--Social conditions--18th century; Women--Social life and customs--18th century; Mathematics; Women--Education--History; Education--18th century; Education--America--History--18th century; Haines, Reuben, 1727-1793
Date: 1776; 2022