class. Students were allowed to attend the kindergarten class as young as four years old. The teacher, often referred to as “auntie” by her students, created a learning environment to nurture a young child’s energy, imagination, and social skills (K. Brown, A. Gordon, 2008, 23-24). By the mid eighteen hundreds a prominent, local resident of St. Louis, Missouri Susan Blow began to investigate kindergarten as a possibility for young children in United States public schools systems. Miss Blow was…
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