Background
Thompson, Thomas Edward was born on May 6, 1864 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Thomas and Margaret (Fitzgerald) Thompson.
Thompson, Thomas Edward was born on May 6, 1864 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Thomas and Margaret (Fitzgerald) Thompson.
Graduate Waukegan (Illinois) High School, 1883. Courses Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, University of California and Normal School, Fitchburg, Massachusetts. Graduate Hyannis (Massachusetts) Normal School, 1911, and Occidental College, 1919.
Teacher in Vermont, N.H. and Massachusetts, 1885-1895. Superintendent schools, Leominster, Massachusetts, 1895-1914, Monrovia, California, 1914-1919. With University of California at Los Angeles, 1922-1936.
Author: A Nature Calendar, 1898. Self-Verifying Seat Work, 1904. Minimum Essentials, a New System of Education (series of 40 publications), 1913.
Non-Dictation Spelling, 1915. Standardized Tests in the Fundamentals, 1916. Standardized Practice Tests, Automatically Corrected, 1916.
Joint Author: Fables and Rhymes, 1894. Fairy Tale and Fable, 1895. For Childhood Days, 1899.
Story, Myth and Fable, 1903. Practice Tests in Arithmetic, 1926. Automatic Correction.
Essentials of English Instantaneous Correction, 1928. Silent Reading Sentence Completion—Primer Grade, 1931. Silent Reading Sentence Completion—First Reader Grade, 1931.
Address: 10552 Blythe Avenue, Los Angeles, California* Deceased.
Married Mary Lucia Hagar, December 1891.