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	The Maybole Ragged School (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The school was supported by a group of benefactors and subscriptions from the town's inhabitants.
		The first four months after he came to school he was guilty of thieft two or three different times, he also deserted school ten or twelve times, but during the last eight or nine months that he was at school there appeared to be a decided alteration, both in his sentiments and manners.
		When admitted to school he could read part of the alphabet but being of a very unsettled disposition he was unwilling to submit to either school attendance or discipline and so opposed to learning that he made but little progress.
	www.maybole.org /history/articles/mayboleraggedschool.htm (3233 words)

	Charles Dickens on ragged schooling
		Dicken's encounter with ragged schooling made a lasting impact upon him and is said to have been a significant element in his writing of A Christmas Carol.
		In the best of these, the pupils in the female school were being taught to read and write; and though there were among the number, many wretched creatures steeped in degradation to the lips, they were tolerably quiet, and listened with apparent earnestness and patience to their instructors.
		The Ragged School was of recent date and very poor; but he had inculcated some association with the name of the Almighty, which was not an oath, and had taught them to look forward in a hymn (they sang it) to another life, which would correct the miseries and woes of this.
	www.infed.org /archives/e-texts/dickens_ragged_schools.htm (989 words)

	Ragged school page
		Schools such as those run by the Ragged Schools Union in the 1840's to 'convert incipient criminals' and teach a trade, were intended to cater for poor children and those found wandering the streets.
		The first school of this type was established in Portsmouth in 1818 but the movement developed in the 1840's with the establishment of the Ragged Schools Union receiving support from Lord Ashley.
		A number of schools were established in the early 1850's, including schools in Manchester, Stockport and Chester and an industrial school was established by the Vemon family in Poynton in 1858.
	www.newman.ac.uk /Students_Websites/~M.W.Entecott/ragged.htm (178 words)

	The History of Ragged Schools (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The idea of ragged schools was developed by John Pounds, a Portsmouth shoemaker.
		Shaftesbury was one of the founders of the Ragged Schools Union and was its president for 40 years.
		The ragged school movement grew out of a recognition that charity, denominational and dames schools were not providing for significant numbers of children in inner-city areas.
	www.maybole.org /history/articles/historyofraggedschools.htm (739 words)

	Victorian London - Publications - Social Investigation/Journalism - The Million-Peopled City, by John Garwood, 1853 - ...
		Ragged Schools in an especial manner free from the Difficulties of Difference of Creed and Interference with the Duties of Parents.
		The school was formed, not without much personal exertion, by a paid agent and others representing to parents, too ignorant, perhaps, or too regardless to make a voluntary effort, the duty and the benefit of giving their children the opportunity of obtaining some religious and useful instruction.
		A school, moreover, in which no children are to be found who would be admitted into any other school; for, ragged, diseased, and crime-worn, their very appearance would scare away the children of well-conducted parents; and hence, if they were not educated there, they would receive no education at all.
	www.victorianlondon.org /publications4/peopled-01.htm (15949 words)

	Lord Shaftesbury and ragged schooling
		As the schools developed, many gained better premises and broadened their clientele (age wise), opened club rooms and hostel and shelter accommodation, and added savings clubs and holiday schemes to their programmes of classes.
		The master of the new school "told the bench plainly that extermination, not efficiency, was the Board's object." But this object was scarcely charitable; and men who had sacrificed much for that particular school, and knew something of its work, were not inclined to accept insults lying down.
		He still, therefore, quibbled about the inadequacy of the Ragged School standards, and Sir Robert in turn, checkmated him by insisting that children of the two schools be pitted against one another in public examination.
	www.infed.org /walking/wa-shaft.htm (856 words)

	Discover Hertford Online \| History of Schools
		Christ's Hospital School, sometimes known as The Bluecoat School, was founded in 1546 by Edward VI and moved to Hertford in the late 17th century, possibly to escape the plague.
		The National School movement began in 1811 and was established by a group of philanthropists for the basic education of poorer children of primary school age.
		The Ragged School in Butcherley Green was provided for children of poor families in 1859, many of whom lived close by.
	www.hertford.net /history/histschool.asp (657 words)

	Brickfields: Victorian Hackney: School
		Some churches provided schooling for a few poor children at reduced rates as did the Ragged Schools that were set up especially for very poor and beggar children.
		There is a Ragged School museum in London where you can see a classroom as it would have looked in Victorian times.
		This is a classroom at the Ragged School Museum in London.
	www.brickfields.org.uk /victorian/vic_school.htm (458 words)

	Educators and Education
		While scholars generally agree that this was a "ragged" school, Dickens in fact does not say whether this was a ragged school or one of its near equivalents, the dame school and the common day school.
		agged schools, which took their name from the fact that they accepted the ill-kempt children of the "perishing and dangerous classes," charged little or nothing and taught in return an extremely limited curriculum, while the dame and common day schools were slightly more discriminating in their admissions and slightly more advanced in their curricular offerings.
		By denying funds to those ragged schools which refused to be inspected, and by reducing funding to National schools, teachers, and pupil-teachers, government inspectors effectively limited the educational options open to the poor, both as students and as teachers.
	humwww.ucsc.edu /dickens/OMF/watt.html (1401 words)

	Company Home Page
		At the school he met 10 year old Jim Jarvis, a street urchin, who opened Barnardo's eyes to the poverty and destitution which he and hundreds of others like him suffered.
		Ragged schools were free schools for poor children.
		By 1875, Hope Place and another ragged school he had opened were condemned due to overcrowding so he needed to rent larger buildings.
	www.topleybarnardo.cwc.net /doctorbio (660 words)

	Victorian London - Education - Education for the poor - Ragged Schools
		RAGGED SCHOOL UNION,-office, 1 Exeter Hall,- was established in 1844, with the view of bringing a "plain" but sound education within the reach of even the very humblest classes, of providing them with gratuitous shelter from the inclemency of the weather, and stimulating them to industrial and prudent habits.
		When the school first opened, five of the boys came absolutely naked except for their mothers’ shawls pinned round them, nor was this as great a hardship as the uninitiated might imagine, for one boy entirely refused to adopt any other costume, and for a long time remained obdurate to remonstrances and persuasions!
		In 1864 the boys were ragged, unkempt, ignorant, without even the desire to rise; in four years’ time those same boys had become orderly, decent in dress and behaviour—had, in fact, climbed several rungs up the ladder of civilization and were anxious to continue climbing.
	www.victorianlondon.org /education/raggedschools.htm (6039 words)

	The Standards Site: Ragged School Museum Project: London Borough Of Tower Hamlets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Ragged School Museum (a small independent museum in Tower Hamlets) aimed to develop its partnership with local schools to provide high quality cultural, educational and leisure experiences for local children by establishing with them The Museum Club.
		Both schools serve areas of significant economic and social disadvantage and have high numbers of pupils from families whose first language is not English.
		The schools and the museum have developed a practical understanding of how to work together in future projects and the new museum manager has been elected to the Board of School Governors at one of the schools, thus strengthening links.
	www.standards.dfes.gov.uk /studysupport/casestudies/raggedmuseum (997 words)

	Ragged Schools, Industrial Schools and Reformatories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In her discussion of the ‘Ragged Classes and Dangerous Classes’ Gertrude Himmelfarb briefly outlines the school provision made, ‘For the ragged classes … there were the ragged schools.
		The schools were given this name because the children who attended had only very ragged clothes to wear and they rarely had shoes.
		He said the schools had been able to find employment for many of the children and they were taught to be careful with their money.
	www.hiddenlives.org.uk /articles/raggedschool.html (1232 words)

	Ragged School - Burslem
		The Ragged School was for destitute children who could not afford even the small charge at the 'Hill Top' Sunday School (which was only a few hundred yards away).
		The school was built 167years-ago by Lord Shaftesbury to educate children whose parents could not afford to pay school fees.
		The school was built 167 years ago by Lord Shaftsbury to educate children whose parents could not afford to pay for school fees.
	www.thepotteries.org /buildings/ragged_school.htm (741 words)

	Lambeth Ragged School (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Ragged schools were free school for poor vagrant children, where they are taught and usually given food.
		Shaftesbury formed the Ragged School Union in 1844 and by 1852 there were over 200 free schools for poor children in Britain.
		The Lambeth Ragged School in Newport Street was built by Henry Benjamin Hanbury Beaufoy, FRS in 1851 as a memorial to his wife who had taken an interest in the school which previously had been held in a railway arch.
	www.vauxhallsociety.org.uk /LambethRag.html (349 words)

	Early Education for the Poor
		Dame schools were run by women of often little or no qualification who charged 3d or 4d per pupil a week and taught skills such as reading and writing to a rudimentary level.
		To be quiet in the school, not to use any play things in school time, to keep their books neat and free from dog's ears, and not to climb upon the desks nor to scrawl upon or in any other way to damage the desks, forms or walls of the school-house.
		Ragged Schools developed from the work of John Pounds, a Portsmouth shoemaker who in 1818 provided a free school for the poorest children.
	users.ox.ac.uk /~peter/workhouse/education/early.shtml (1262 words)

	Charles Gordon's Charitable Works: An Appreciation
		It was not new work in which Gordon became involved; rather, it was his extraordinary energy that he brought to an existing work, the Gravesend Ragged School.
		Ragged schools were the forerunners of the national education system that was established by the 1870 Education Act piloted through Parliament by Foster.
		They were linked together on a national level in the Ragged School Union that was chaired by the Earl of Shaftsbury, a prominent evangelical in his own right.
	www.victorianweb.org /history/empire/gordon/mersh2.html (1530 words)

	Ragged School Museum \| London Sights & Activities \| Fodor's Online Travel Guide
		In its time, this was the largest school in London and a place where impoverished children could escape their deprived homes to get free education and a good meal.
		Even after their short school career, the students were helped to find their first jobs and a way out of their poverty.
		The school was their passport to a better life.
	www.fodors.com /miniguides/mgresults.cfm?destination=london@91&cur_section=sig&property_id=312105 (215 words)

	Child & Youth Care On-Line: Maybole Ragged School
		The author of the journals is unknown, although it is possible from the type of language used in the entries that he was a church minister.
		The journals concern themselves with the Maybole Ragged School which was supported by a group of benefactors and subscriptions from the town's inhabitants.
		The Teacher reported that the case of Helen McCafferty was brought before the Parochial Board when it was arranged, that she is to continue in the Ragged School and be maintained for one year at the rate of One Shilling and six pence per wek for food and education.
	www.cyc-net.org /cyc-online/cycol-0200-maybole.html (2728 words)

	NEH Seminar 2002
		The Ragged School movement was inspired by John Pounds, a crippled cobbler, who gathered small groups of outcast children in his workshop to teach them how to read while he worked.
		The Ragged School Union, founded by Evangelicals, was formed in 1844 to institutionalize small volunteer schools which taught poor and outcast children to read while providing them with some work.
		Perhaps 300,000 children were taught in Ragged Schools before the passage of the Education Act of 1870 began to provide state supported universal elementary education.
	www.umassd.edu /ir/l12.html (156 words)

	Best Days Of Your Life? Find Out At The Ragged School Museum - 24 Hour Museum - official guide to UK museums, ...
		School Days at the Ragged School Museum in Tower Hamlets explores all of these and more.
		As you enter there's a glass case filled with photographs of ordinary looking children, a typical school uniform, a sheet metal road sign, all reminders that school memories are, in some ways, universal.
		Margaret Tracey, 56, was a pupil at John Scurr Primary School in Stepney.
	www.24hourmuseum.org.uk /exh_gfx_en/ART15671.html (726 words)

	Ragged School Museum - About
		The purpose of the Ragged School Museum is to make the unique history of the East End of London, and in particular of the Copperfield Road Ragged School, accessible to everyone.
		The Ragged School Museum is run as an independent charity and we depend upon volunteers to help in every aspect of the Museum's work, from talking to school children to serving on the Council of Management.
		Membership of the Ragged School Museum Trust is open to all and enables anyone to become involved in the work of the Trust and the Museum.
	www.raggedschoolmuseum.org.uk /about.shtml (484 words)

	Sir John Kirk
		The Ragged School Union is practically a living monument of the life and work of the late Lord Shaftesbury, and to have his honoured son present with us is on the lines of historic continuity.
		William Rainey, R.I., is to be hung in the council-room of the Ragged School Union at 32, John-street.
		Nurseries, schools for mothers, baby welfare centers, seaside homes, homes for mothers and babies, for unmarried mothers with their burden of fatherless little ones, teachersâ rests, and boysâ camps â“all these and others were among the institutions in connection with Sir Johnâs work.
	sirjohnkirk.blogspot.com (11314 words)

	spON-LINE: History and heritage - Spon Street School
		At first, parents were relunctant to send their girls to a school which used the old 'ragged schoolroom' but numbers soon rose rapidly.
		The old school building was patched up for many years but was eventually demolished as the school was redeveloped.
		Only the old infants' school building now remains as a reminder of the school's history, and this building ceased to be used for teaching in 1999.
	www.sponend.org.uk /hist/hhschool.htm (876 words)

	Mary Carpenter - bio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The intense and incredibly thorough Mary was educated in her father’s school for boys, where she learned Latin, Greek, mathematics, and other subjects not generally taught to girls at that time.
		Her school stressed a reciprocal confidence between student and teacher, and required that the teacher become acquainted with the child’s home environment.
		She did not allow corporal punishment in her schools, feeling that the best approach to reform was founded on education and Christianity and that the length of the reformatory process was dependent on the individual child.
	athena.english.vt.edu /~jmooney/3044biosa-g/carpenter.html (719 words)

	Earl of Shaftesbury 06
		Then he discovered the "ragged schools", which were springing up in various places, usually begun by London City Missionaries and other volunteers.
		Convinced that these schools were the best way of helping children to "climb out of the gutter", Ashley supported them enthusiastically, soon becoming president of the "Ragged School Union", an organization that still exists, though now known as the Shaftesbury Society.
		Besides helping to establish the Ragged Schools, Ashley persuaded parliament to provide money to give opportunity for the most able pupils to emigrate to Australia, New Zealand and Canada.
	www.request.org.uk /main/history/shaftesbury/shaftesbury06.htm (285 words)

	Edcation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		We can put all the ragged [1]into portable schoolrooms and the rich, noble ones in public schools where they will get a good education.
		Now, to my last point, some of the teachers in public schools are complaining they don’t get paid enough.
		“Ragged schools” were schools that were funded by charities and staffed by both paid teachers and middle-class volunteers.
	project1.caryacademy.org /1851/education.htm (411 words)

	Shaftesbury Society and Ragged School Union. Minutes of the Ragged School Union and Shaftesbury Society
		The Ragged School Union and the Shaftesbury Society were the greatest social investigators and reforming bodies of the Victorian Age.
		The collection documents the position of children with the society, and the value system of Victorian family life, the grim poverty of the times, the varying motives behind philanthropic effort, and the role of women in early philanthropy.
		The Ragged Schools Union founded in 1884 was set up to help destitute children, provide elementary education, run classes to train children for employment, and found suitable occupations for them.
	www.library.utoronto.ca /robarts/microtext/collection/pages/shaftbry.html (372 words)

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