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Proceedings from the First Conference

One hundred educators answered The Call, meeting in Philadelphia in 1857. They founded the National Teachers' Association (later changed to National Education Association), and forty-three founders signed its new constitution. You can read a list of the signers—including two women who were allowed to join as "honorary members." The proceedings from that first meeting were published in 1904 by C. W. Bardeen.

Proceedings from the 1857 meeting of the National Teachers' Association

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