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Ella Flagg Young (January 15, 1845 – October 26, 1918) was an American educator who served as superintendent of Chicago Public Schools. She was the first female head of a large United States city school system. She also served as the first female president of the National Education Association.
Ella Flagg Young (born Jan. 15, 1845, Buffalo, N.Y., U.S.—died Oct. 26, 1918, Washington, D.C.) was an American educator who, as Chicago’s superintendent of schools, became the first woman to achieve that administrative status in a major American school system.
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May 17, 2018 · YOUNG, ELLA FLAGG (1845 – 1918) Superintendent of the Chicago schools from 1909 through 1915 and elected president of the National Education Association (NEA) in 1910, Ella Flagg Young attempted widespread reform in an increasingly industrialized and diverse America.
Mar 6, 2018 · That woman was Ella Flagg Young, and she was the first female superintendent not only of Chicago, but of any major urban public school district in the nation. A progressive education reformer even by today’s standards, Young broke glass ceilings for women in education, advocated for student and teacher voices, and inspired the works of ...
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Jun 27, 2024 · In July of 1916, Ella Flagg Young published a review of John Dewey's Democracy and Education. 1 This woman, hailed around the country as one of the most significant educational leaders of her day, had just stepped down from her superintendency of the Chicago schools, the first woman in the United States to have held such a high position of publi...
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Ella Flagg Young was the first woman superintendent of a large city school system (Chicago, 1909-1915) and the first woman president of the National Education Association (1910). She was a professor of pedagogy and a colleague of John Dewey at the University of Chicago.