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Title: Texas Standard: Spreading the Word to the Teachers' State Association of Texas (Chapter 15) (Report)
Author : American Education History Journal
Release Date : January 01, 2007
Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 219 KB

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Throughout the history of the United States, individuals engaged in common occupations joined together to form professional associations. Artisans in colonial Georgia founded the Mechanics Society of Augusta (Gillespie 2000, 39), physicians formed the American Medical Association, and attorneys, the American Bar Association. Through these organizations individuals were able to disseminate ideas and research and, collectively, to exert influence on legislative matters and public opinion. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, teachers organized into national and state associations. Stinnett noted the earliest teachers' association, the Edinburgh Society of Teachers, was founded in Scotland in 1737. In the United States, the first recorded association was