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In the mid-1930s, MPS Superintendent Milton Potter initiated a new system of teaching reading. Library Technique was based in progressive educational ideals of the time and allowed students to gain reading skills by pursuing personal interests in a reading area and to develop at their own rate; rather than by learning from a traditional common reader text. Following the superintendent’s annual reports in 1936 and 1937, which emphasized the positive results from partial elements of Library Technique, Humboldt Park School was the first Milwaukee school to adopt the whole Library Technique method in 1938. Library Technique gained modest national attention, partly due to the 1938 National Education Association annual meeting, held in Milwaukee that year. Within a decade, most of the Milwaukee public elementary schools used Library Technique.
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Architecture & History Inventory
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