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The Wisconsin teacher who built America's first kindergarten in 1856
Margarethe Meyer Schurz’s play-based classroom helped launch the U.S. kindergarten movement, and the preserved schoolhouse now draws visitors to a replica exhibit.
A litle known history fact about Wisconsin is that the state is home to the country's first kindergarten.It was a German-speaking kindergarten created by Margarethe Meyer Schurz in 1856 in Watertown. Schurz moved from Germany to Watertown with her family. She started teaching in her home but quickly outgrew that space.So, more and more families wanted their families to be part of it, and it was eventually relocated to this building that we're in…