A Community School in a Spanish-Speaking Village
Memoir
By: Loyd S. Tireman and Mary Watson
Date: 1948
Source: Tireman, Loyd S., and Mary Watson. A Community School in a Spanish-Speaking Village. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1948, 74–78.
About the Authors: Loyd S. Tireman (1896–1959), a pioneer in bilingual education, was born into a farming community in Orchard, Iowa. He graduated from Upper Iowa State University in 1917, in time to enlist for service in World War I (1914–1918). After the war, he returned to Iowa, married, and assumed a position as a school superintendent in Hanlontown, the first of several such positions he held. He did graduate work in education at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, receiving his master's in 1924 and his doctorate in 1927. That same year, he joined the faculty of the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, and remained in New Mexico until his death.
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