Angelo Patri (November 26, 1876 – September 13, 1965) was an

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author and educator. Magazine_cover_The_Delineator_June_1922_man_and_woman_in_garden

His real surname was Petraglia, and he was born in

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province) of south-western Italy. Patri came to the United States when he was five. He gained a B.A. at the College of the City of New York in 1897, and an M.A. at

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in 1904. A schoolteacher in New York from 1898 to 1908, he may have been the first Italian-born American to become a school principal in the United States. In attempting to engage the student with tasks that went beyond book learning, he was influenced by the writings of

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. From 1908 to 1913 he was principal of Public School No. 4, and in 1913 he became principal of Public School 45,

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. He wrote a syndicated column, "Our Children", on child psychology, for newspapers and magazines. He died in Danbury, Connecticut, on September 13, 1965.
The Angelo Patri Middle School, MS 391 in the Bronx
is named in his honor.

Works

Books for parents and teachers: *''A School Master of the Great City'', 1917 *''The School That Everybody Wants'', 1922 *''Child Training'', 1922 * "Talks to Mothers", 1923 (Presented with the compliments of 'The Thomas Dalby Company' Watertown. Mass.) *''School and Home'', 1925 *''Problem of Childhood'', 1926 *''What Have You Got to Give?'', 1926 *''The Questioning Child'', 1928 *''Your Children In Wartime'',Angelo Patri
Your Children In Wartime
Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., https://archive.org/details/yourchildreninwa011519mbp 1943 * ''How to help your child grow up'' (Chicago: Rand McNally, 1948) Books for children: *''White Patch'', 1911 *''Pinocchio in Africa'', 1911 (tr.) *''Spirit of America'', 1924 *''Pinocchio in America'', 1928 *''The Adventures of Pinocchio'', 1937 (tr.)

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Patri, Angelo 1877 births 1965 deaths American school principals Italian educators American educators Italian emigrants to the United States