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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 2., The development of the public School of Medford. (search)
lowing year, when, March 2, 1835, it was voted that a committee be chosen to inquire into the different and best methods of conducting public schools in other places, also into the state of our own public schools, to report what improvements, what numbers and kinds of schools are necessary in this town to qualify every scholar who desires an education for the active duties of life. Also to report on the duty of the School Committee, the Teachers and Scholars. Nathan Adams, Galen James, Caleb Stetson, Robert L. Ells, and Milton James were the committee appointed and they reported in print in April. The bill for printing this report has been found, but not the report itself, yet we still hope that some attic will be found that will put us in possession of one of the most important documents in the educational history of the town. Thus, then, was our modern system of schools established, with one central high school, two grammar, with male teachers, and primary schools tributary t