User talk:Ginocroc

I wish to write articles about Caroline Pratt, founder of City & Country School/also City and Country School in Greenwich Village NYC in 1914, and about the school because: 1) There are a small number of references to both in the Wikipedia that do not have much information. 2) Ms. Pratt and the school are both important in the history of progressive education (The school was one of the schools described in John Dewey's "Six Schools." (need full cite) as well as many other books and articles. The school is still in operation. Ms. Pratt, of course, is deceased.

I went to the City and Country School (C&C) for 4 years at ages 10-13, grades 5-8, graduating in 1959. I have taught at C&C since 1980. In the past three years, as part of my work, I have been adding to our extensive archives (that also include the earliest records of the Bank Street College of Education as the Bureau of Educational Experiments). The idea for doing a couple of short articles grew out of a discussion between myself and our resident Archivist.

My intention is to write short factual articles. The article about Ms. Pratt would describe Ms Pratt's basic contributions to Progressive Education with citations to other longer works and the course of her professional life. The article on C&C would briefly describe its history and some of its contributions to progressive education.

After reading various Wikipedia articles and guidelines about conflict of interest, I am unclear as to whether it would be proper to include a citation/pointer to C&C's website which includes some relevant information as well as a steadily growing (we intend) number of items from our archives. Ginocroc (talk) 14:02, 18 December 2010 (UTC)