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- When the Chicago school board could not agree on a new superintendent in 1909, they chose Young, an experienced insider, making her the first woman superintendent of a large-city school system in the country. A year later, the membership of the NEA elected her as its first woman president.
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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.
- L. Dean Webb, Martha M. McCarthy
- 1998
When the Chicago school board could not agree on a new superintendent in 1909, they chose Young, an experienced insider, making her the first woman superintendent of a large-city school system in the country. A year later, the membership of the NEA elected her as its first woman president.
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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Isolation in the School, Volume I—Contributions to Education (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1901); Ethics in the School, Volume II—Contributions to Education (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1902); "President's Address—Hypothesis in Education," and "The Present Status of Education in America—A. In the Elementary Schools," in 1...
Bardeen, C.W. "Necrology," in 1918 Addresses and Proceedings of the National Education Association. Washington, DC: National Education Association Secretary's Office, 1918. Bennett, Helen Christine. American Women In Civic Work. NY: Dodd, Mead, 1915. Blumenfeld, Samuel L. NEA: Trojan Horse in American Education. Boise, ID: Paradigm, 1984. Cremin, L...
Annual Reports of the Board of Education, Public Schools of the City of Chicago, 1910–1915. National Education Association. Journals of Addresses and Proceedings, 1887–1917. Susan Works McCarter, M.Ed., freelance writer, Wayne, Pennsylvania
Ella Flagg Young was the first woman superintendent of a large-city school system (Chicago, 1909-15) and the first woman president of the National Education Association (1910).
- L. Dean Webb, Martha M. McCarthy
- 1998
On July 30, 1909, Ella Flagg Young became one of the most famous women in the country when newspapers coast-to-coast carried front-page news that she would be Chicago's next superintendent of schools.
She also served on the Board of Education for the State of Illinois from 1888 to 1913 and was the first woman in America to head a large city school system. In 1910-1911, the membership of the National Education Association elected Dr. Young its first woman president.
