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A teacher surrounded by young elementary students watching their teacher show them how to write cursive on a blackboard

Back to School with the Blackboard -1817’s Newest Teaching Technology

Posted by: Ellen Terrell

This post written by Michelle Cadoree Bradley, a Science Reference Specialist in the Science, Technology and Business Division. By the 1840s this teaching aid was being lauded as miracle of instruction. In a “Letter to a Primary School Teacher” published in the February 15,1844 issue of the The Common School Journal the author writes that …