A Des Moines elementary school is honoring an educator who broke the color barrier in the late 1940s. Harriet Curley was hired to teach kindergarten at Perkins Elementary School in 1946.

PERKINS CREATED A NEW ASSESSMENT TOOL FOR ... IN THE U.S. SOME STUDIES HAVE EVEN SHOWN THAT 1 IN 30 KIDS IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HAVE IT. THEY MAY NOT EVEN KNOW IT. THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH ...

Hanna Perkins School is a private school located in Shaker Heights, OH. The student population of Hanna Perkins School is 2. The school’s minority student enrollment is 50.0% and the student ...

Nearly 80 years ago, Harriet Curley was hired to teach kindergarten at Perkins Elementary School, becoming the first Black public school teacher in the state. Now, her legacy will live on at the ...

Alexia Perkins knew that being a teacher was her calling, all thanks to her fifth grade teacher. "It was in Mrs. Bryant's class that I knew teaching was for me. In elementary ...