Jennie
Howard
1841-1931
international innovator
Jennie Howard graduated from the Framingham Normal School in February 1866. After graduation, she
began teaching in the Worcester school system before eventually moving to an administrative position. In 1883,
Howard and twenty-two other American teachers traveled to Argentina with the intent of setting up normal
schools. By 1908, seventy-five normal schools had been established in Argentina; seventeen solely for women.
Howard remained in Argentina after many of the other women returned home. She became the regent and
vice-directress of the Girls’ Normal School in Cordoba, holding the position for two years before transferring to
the Mixed Normal School of San Nicholas as a professor of Pedagogic Criticism and Arithmetic. After sixteen
years of service in San Nicholas, she was forced to retire due to illness. She remained in the country after her
retirement and participated in women’s affairs in the American colony in Buenos Aires and continued to serve
as an educational advisor until her death in 1931.