Query: 19th century pedagogical abbreviation TAW

[Cohen, Gerald Leonard]

Today I received the query below about the abbreviation "TAW." (Bob Doerr is a local genealogist). Would anyone be able to help on this?

A Google check turned up the following site: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O25-taw.html
with its mention of the Oxford Dictionary of Abbreviations (1998), where "taw" is explained as "twice a week."
But I'm not sure that's relevant to the pedagogical context below.

Any assistance would be very much appreciated.

Gerald Cohen

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From: Bob Doerr [mailto:bdoerr at rollanet.org]
Sent: Mon 6/29/2009 9:04 AM
To: Cohen, Gerald Leonard
Subject: TAW



Hi

About 110 years ago, at a teachers convention in southeast Missouri, someone
said that the problem with teaching was that they had not gone back to TAW.
Someone else complained, at least we don't want TAW for spelling.

Any idea as to what was TAW?



Bob Doerr in the beautiful Missouri Ozarks
PLEASE USE THIS E-MAIL ADDRESS: bdoerr at miner.mst.edu

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