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Island education and schooling research dossier, 2026

Also Island education evidence matrix · Island education timeline

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TypeDataset
Date2026-08-02
WithinBeaver Island
ErasIrish eraModern era
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Date
2026-08-02
Eras
Irish eraModern era
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educationhistoriographycommunity
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Beaver Island

Summary

This dossier organizes the evidence for Beaver Island schooling without presenting it as a seamless institutional history. It brings together six public source families, an evidence matrix, and a seven-entry timeline spanning the Dominican Sisters’ documented 1899–1991 teaching presence, 1933 Roosevelt School memory, 1956–74 school notices, later Community School activity, and current 2024–25 directory information.

Evidence limits

The dossier establishes a research path, not a complete student, personnel, finance, curriculum, or building history. Retrospective accounts of the Roosevelt School and early Dominican teaching remain distinct from contemporaneous school notices, while current Community School and NCES descriptions establish present status rather than historical continuity. No student records are collected.

See also

Sources

  1. Island education and schooling source manifest, project-authored research dataset, August 2, 2026.
    Defines a six-source collection: the Holy Cross marker, Dominican school record, Roosevelt School retrospective, Beaver Beacon school notices, current Community School pages, and NCES CCD 2024–25. It explicitly excludes student records. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
    research · island_education · manifest
  2. Island education and schooling evidence matrix, project-authored research dataset, August 2, 2026.
    Separates what each source establishes from what it does not establish, including limits on personnel, building, enrollment, finance, curriculum, and historical-continuity claims. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
    research · island_education · evidence_matrix
  3. Island education and schooling timeline, project-authored research dataset, August 2, 2026.
    Provides seven dated source-bound entries from the 1899 Dominican teaching start to the current 2024–25 directory context; it distinguishes retrospective, contemporary, and current-institutional evidence. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
    research · island_education · timeline
  4. Project provenance for the island education and schooling research collection, August 2, 2026.
    Records the collection as project-authored synthesis; underlying institutional and newspaper sources retain their own rights and evidentiary limits. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
    research · island_education · README.provenance

Added 2 August 2026. Recent changes

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Beaver Island Archive, “Island education and schooling research dossier, 2026”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/documents/island-education-and-schooling-research-dossier-2026/, accessed [date], citing Island education and schooling source manifest, project-authored research dataset, August 2, 2026. (and 3 further sources listed on the page).

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