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In the 1926–1927 school year, Arkansas had 4,711 school districts, with 3,106 of them each operating a school for white students that only employed a single teacher. Various laws affecting taxation and state and county governance reduced the number of school districts, including a 1927 law that allowed counties, upon voter approval, to modify ...
Clinton National ( LIT) ' Jefferson also known as Jeff Springs and Jefferson Springs Station [1] is an unincorporated community in the Pine Bluff metropolitan area of northwestern Jefferson County in the U.S. state of Arkansas. It is situated on the Union Pacific Railway (UP), 15.5 miles (24.9 km) northwest of Pine Bluff, the county seat, [2 ...
Jefferson County, Arkansas. / 34.28750°N 91.94222°W / 34.28750; -91.94222. Jefferson County, Arkansas is a county located in the U.S. state of Arkansas in the area known as the Arkansas Delta that extends west of the Mississippi River. Jefferson County consists of five cities, two towns, and 20 townships.
History IDENTIFIERS *Arkansas. ABSTRACT. The purpose of this guide is to provide basic information about historical resources to Arkansas teachers who are seeking to develop units of study and/or activities on Arkansas history. The guide is divided into four. chapters: (1) Museums, Parks and Historical Sites, (2) Libraries and Archives, (3 ...
Arkansas History Curriculum Framework 1997. Arkansas State Dept. of Education, Little Rock. This framework contains six instructional strands. Each strand has a content standard and cumulative student learning expectations for grades K-3, grades 4-6, and grades 7-12. The strands for students to understand are: (1) "Interdependence," how ...
Headquartered in Pine Bluff, Watson Chapel School District employs over 300 faculty and staff to provide educational programs for students ranging from kindergarten through twelfth grade and enrolls more than 2,200 students. [citation needed] In 1971 the district covered 125 square miles (320 km 2) of land. [2]
Altheimer ( / ˈɑːl.taɪmər / ALL-timer) is a city in Plum Bayou Township, Jefferson County, Arkansas, United States. It is situated on the Union Pacific Railway, 11 miles (18 km) northeast of Pine Bluff. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 984, [4] down from 1,192 at the 2000 census.
Beginning around 11,700 B.C.E., the first indigenous people inhabited the area now known as Arkansas after crossing today's Bering Strait, formerly Beringia. [3] The first people in modern-day Arkansas likely hunted woolly mammoths by running them off cliffs or using Clovis points, and began to fish as major rivers began to thaw towards the end of the last great ice age. [4]