Education in St. Louis

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This article is about education in the city of St. Louis, Missouri. For education in the region, see Education in Greater St. Louis.

Education in

charter schools, several colleges and universities, and the St. Louis Public Library
.

Primary and secondary education

The

parochial schools
in the city, including parochial high schools.

Several secular private schools also exist in the city, such as Crossroads College Preparatory School.

Missouri School for the Blind, a state-operated K-12 boarding school, is in the city.

Colleges and universities

The city of St. Louis is home to many universities and colleges, including

Harris-Stowe State University, Washington University in St. Louis (although part of Washington University is located in adjacent Clayton, Missouri), and Stevens Institute of Business and Arts
.

According to William Barnaby Faherty, Rev. Peter Verhaegen, SJ., was a key leader in building Catholicism in the West from his arrival 1823 to his death in 1853. As the first Jesuit president of St. Louis College, he Americanized the Jesuits, created a curriculum to fit frontier needs, integrated the school into Catholic life, moved the school to a bigger campus, and established a medical department.[2]

Libraries

The St. Louis Public Library operates 16 branches and a central library building, and it maintains a borrowing agreement with the adjacent St. Louis County Library.

Miscellaneous education

The

Japanese weekend supplementary school holding classes for Japanese Americans and Japanese nationals, holds its classes at Webster University in nearby Webster Groves, Missouri
.

See also

References

  1. U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved 2022-07-22. - Text list
  2. ^ William Barnaby Faherty, “Peter Verhaegen: Pioneer Missouri Educator and Church Administrator,” Missouri Historical Review (1966) 60#4 pp 407-415.

Further reading

  • Christensen, Lawrence O. and Gary R. Kremer. A History of Missouri: vol IV 1875 to 1919 (U of Missouri Press, 1997) pp 53-62.
  • Christensen, Lawrence O. et al. eds. Dictionary of Missouri Biography (University of Missouri press, 1999); 700 short biographies by experts; 848pp.
  • Faherty, William Barnaby. “Peter Verhaegen: Pioneer Missouri Educator and Church Administrator,” Missouri Historical Review (1966) 60#4 pp 407-415; a leading Catholic 1820s-1840s.
  • Gersman, Elinor Mondale. "Education in St. Louis, 1880-1900: a case study of schools in society" (PhD dissertation, Washington University in St. Louis, 1969; ProQuest Dissertations Publishing,  1969. 7010952).
  • Gersman, Elinor Mondale. "The Development of Public Education for Blacks in Nineteenth Century St. Louis, Missouri." Journal of Negro Education 41.1 (1972): 35-47. onlne
  • Gersman, Elinor Mondale. "Progressive reform of the St. Louis school board, 1897." History of Education Quarterly 10.1 (1970): 3-21. online
  • Kirkendall, Richard S. (2004). A History of Missouri: 1919 to 1953. Vol. V. Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press.
    ISBN 0826204945
    .    ; pp 99-114, 452-454.
  • Larsen, Lawrence H. (2004). A History of Missouri: 1953 to 2003. Vol. VI. Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press.
    ISBN 0826215467
    .
  • Olson, Audrey Louise. "St. Louis Germans, 1850-1920: The nature of an immigrant community and its relation to the assimilation process" (PhD dissertation, University of Kansas; ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 1970. 7025388).
  • Parrish, William E. (1973). A History of Missouri: 1860 to 1875. Vol. III. Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press.
    ISBN 0826201482
    .     pp 170-189.


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