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Early Wisconsin schools were community based and locally controlled. Local churches or public buildings were used as the classroom. The community would hire a teacher, often an unwed woman who was often paid wages directly from the families rather from the community.
The first free public school in the state was opened in 1845 in what is now Kenosha. Article X of the Wisconsin Constitution, adopted in 1848, provided for free public district schools for all children between the ages of 4 and 20.
The state university was established by an act of the first Wisconsin Legislature in 1838.
General Education History
- Our Wisconsin: A school history of the Badger state by Edgar George Doudna - a school history of the Badger state (Google eBook) written 1920 -
Early Education
- Historical Sketch of normal instruction in Wisconsin: 1846-1876 by Albert Salisbury - Education History - Wisconsin -
Higher Education
- Badger Yearbooks - Browse University of Wisconsin Madison Yearbooks. The first yearbook was published April 1884. -
- Concordia University Yearbooks - Concordia digital yearbook collection. -
- UW La Crosse Yearbooks - University of La Crosse Yearbooks 1911-1990 (No yearbooks were produced after 1990) -
- UW Milwaukee Yearbooks - University of Wisconsin Milwaukee digital yearbook collection. -
- UW Stevens Point Campus Newspaper Index - The Index includes articles from 1895 to date. -
- UW Stevens Point Yearbooks - Digital yearbook collection.1895-1988. -
Specialty Schools
Other reports for the School for the Blind-Janesville, and Institute for Deaf and Dumb-Delavan are available on Google books.
- Wisconsin Industrial School for Boys / House of Reform - History of the Wisconsin Industrial School for Boys in Waukesha County. Also known as the House of Reform. -
- Wisconsin Institute for the Education of the Blind - Janesville - Annual Report 1853 - For the year ending Dec. 1853 Includes a catalogue of pupils. -
- Wisconsin Institute for the Education of the Blind - Janesville - Annual Report 1856 - For the year ending Dec. 1856 Includes a catalogue of pupils since the first opening of the school. -
- Wisconsin Institute for the Education of the Blind - Janesville - Annual Report 1865 - For the year ending Nov. 1, 1865 Includes list of pupils, teachers, officers and who monies were paid to. -
- Wisconsin Institute for the Education of the Blind - Janesville, Annual Report 1872 - For the year ending October 1872 Includes list of pupils, teachers, officers and who monies were paid to. -
- Wisconsin Institute For the Education of the Deaf and Dumb - Delavan, Annual Report 1882 - Delevan, Wisconsin Year ending 1882. -
- Wisconsin Institute For the Education of the Deaf and Dumb - Delavan, Biennial Report 1884 - For the two fiscal years ending September 30, 1884 -
- Wisconsin School for the Blind - Janesville, Biennial Report Volume 4 - Ebook available at Google Books. Includes alphabetical student list for the two years ending September 1890. -
- Wisconsin School for the Blind - Janesville, Biennial Report Volume 5 - Ebook available at Google Books. Includes alphabetical student list for the years September 1891 and September 1892. -
- Wisconsin School for the Blind - Janesville, Biennial Report Volume 6 - Ebook available at Google Books. Includes alphabetical student list for the years September 1894 and September 1895. -
