...Officers : Pres., Mrs. Josephine Corliss Preston ; Sec., JW Crabtree; Treas., AJ Matthews. Purpose : To elevate the character and advance the interests...promote the cause of education in the .United States. RELIGIOUS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION Office : 1440 E. 57th St., Chicago, Ill. Officers: Pres., Prof. AC...

...it has carried to this day. The NBA charier announced that the organization would exist "toelcvate the character and advance the interests of the profession of teaching, and to promote the cause of popular education in the United States."3 In reality, however, the organization did little to promote...

...forty-three educators from a dozen states and the District of Columbia. The purpose of the organization was "to elevate the character and advance the interests...profession of teaching, and to promote the cause of popular education in the United States" (AM West, 1984). Until 1866 membership in the National Teachers...

...activities in the 1991-92 election cycle.1 The National Education Association The NEA was founded in 1857 to "elevate the character and advance the interests...teaching and to promote the cause of education in the US"2 The NEA began as a professionally based association comprising all ranks of education professionals,...

...Association at Winona. Minn. Depository of Association at 450 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC Object— To elevate the character and advance the interests of the profession of teaching, and to promote the causeo public education in the United States. Annual dues for active membprs and for associate members,...

...principals, and presidents of state teacher associations who, as their charter would proclaim, came together "to elevate the character and advance the interests...profession of teaching, and to promote the cause of popular education in the United States."1 This was to become the largest, most powerful, and arguably...

...educators assembled to create the NTA. The mission of the association, as stated in its Preamble, was "To elevate the character and advance the interests...profession of teaching, and to promote the cause of popular education in the United States." The NTA's board of directors — the president, twelve vice...

...While the words written in 1857 may appear old-fashioned, the NEA has never forgotten its mission: To elevate the character and advance the interests...profession of teaching and to promote the cause of popular education the United States. (Meyer 1967, 387-389) With an estimated 2004 membership of 2.7...

...(1988) observed that the National Teachers Association, the forerunner of the NEA, was formed in 1857 "to elevate the character and advance the interests...profession of teaching and to promote the cause of popular education in the United States" (p. 605). The AFT, from its inception, was a union of teachers....

...all" for the purpose of fulfilling 'the promise of a democratic society'" (NEA, 2004). Founded in 1857 "to elevate the character and advance the interests...profession of teaching and to promote the cause of popular education in the United States," "the NEA is a professional organization of educators, with...