School Information System
Newsletter Sign Up |

Subscribe to this site via RSS: | Newsletter signup | Send us your ideas

July 13, 2010

Travel Club Returns To Pick Up New Generation

Kyle Norris:

An idea from the 1930's is being used to inspire 21st century girls to stay in school. The original idea of a children's travel club belonged to Merze Tate, a woman from rural Michigan, who was the first African-American to graduate from Oxford University. Today, another Michigan woman has revived that travel club concept to widen the world of sixth-grade girls.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at July 13, 2010 1:23 AM
Subscribe to this site via RSS/Atom: Newsletter signup | Send us your ideas