Frank Morton McMurry was an American

United States

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 educator and a brother of Charles Alexander McMurry

Charles Alexander McMurry

Charles Alexander McMurry. Ph.D. was an American educator, born at Crawfordsville, Ind. He graduated at the Illinois State Normal University in 1876, and studied at the University of Michigan , and in Europe at Halle and Jena. He taught in Illinois. At various times McMurry was a professor at...

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Born near Crawfordsville, Indiana

Crawfordsville, Indiana

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, McMurry studied at the University of Michigan

University of Michigan

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 and at Halle

Halle, Saxony-Anhalt

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 and Jena

Jena

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 in Europe, earning a Ph.D. in 1889. Before teaching in higher education, he served as the principal of Carter High School (Englewood). He taught at several colleges, first as professor of pedagogics at the University of Illinois and then at Columbia University

Columbia University

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 where he was appointed professor in 1898. While at the University of Illinois he introduced the "practice-teaching" method, which is now commonly known as "student teaching" and is found in most teacher training programs across the country. With Ralph Stockman Tarr

Ralph Stockman Tarr

Ralph Stockman Tarr, S.B. was an American geographer, born at Gloucester, Massachusetts. He was educated at Harvard and he served at Cornell where he became professor in 1897. He was in charge of the 1896 Cornell expedition to Greenland...

 he published the Tarr and McMurry Common School Geographies (1900), and with his brother Charles, Method of the Recitation (1903).

McMurry also was the author of How to Study and Teaching How to Study (1900) and Elementary School Standards (1913).

External links

• How to Study and Teaching How to Study from Project Gutenberg
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