George Peabody College

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George Peabody College [1] was founded in 1875 when the University of Nashville, located in Nashville, Tennessee, split into two separate educational institutions. The preparatory school, Montgomery Bell Academy separated from the college, which was originally called Peabody Normal School, but soon became known as the George Peabody College for Teachers."[2]

This change apparently took place around 1909, when all the buildings and other assets of Peabody Normal School were donated to the George Peabody College for Teachers, signifying the end of the entity known as the University of Nashville.

After 1911, Peabody College has been located directly across the street from the campus of Vanderbilt University. It later became affiliated with Vanderbilt University, and is now known as the Peabody College of Education and Human Development at Vanderbilt University.[1]

It was located on the site of the campus of the former Roger Williams University, a school for African American students which burned around 1906.Roger Williams University Prior to this it was a division of the former University of Nashville. The site was then occupied by Peabody, which was then for whites, although its "demonstration school" (now University School of Nashville) became the one of the first high schools in Nashville to be desegregated in the early 1960s.

Peabody became a renowned school of education, especially in the South.Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; invalid names, e.g. too many It is now the host of two government funded national research centers: the National Center on School Choice and the National Center on Performance Incentives. Peabody was ranked third among American graduate schools of education, tied with Harvard Graduate School of Education, in the 2008 rankings by U.S. News & World Report.

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