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Jennie Howard (July 1861 in Massachusetts – 1931 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) was raised in North Prescott, Massachusetts and attended Worcester Academy before entering Framingham Normal School (now Framingham State University) in March 1864. Howard graduated Framingham Normal School in 1866. In 1883, (Howard ) and twenty-two other American teachers went to Argentina at the request of Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Argentina's seventh constitutional president. The teachers were divided into small groups and were deployed to different parts of the country to study Spanish. Many of the teachers were given only four months of language training. Howard was 38 and already an experienced teacher when she arrived in Argentina. After four months in Parana, Howard and Edith Howe, another Framingham School graduate, assisted in the organization of the Girls' Normal School of Corrientes, where they stayed for two years. After her time abroad, Howard became regent and vice-directress of the Girls' Normal School in Cordoba. She remained there for two years and was subsequently transferred to the Mixed Normal School of San Nicholas, where she remained for sixteen years. In ''Women in Argentina: Early Travels'', Monica Szurmuk wrote that Howard viewed Argentina as backward and barbaric. Howard wrote a book about her experiences as an educator in Argentina titled ''In Distant Climes and Other Years''. Howard wrote that "it is more difficult for the Latin race to speak the truth" and the Argentine teachers had "deeply grounded faults to be eradicated in the young teacher's training which will still take some generations to eradicate." Jennie Howard retired in 1903 and remained in her adopted country until her death in 1931. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jennie Howard」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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