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The common school movement took hold in the 1830s, and by the time of the Civil War organized systems of common schools had become commonplace throughout most of northern and midwestern states. ... As part of a massive reform package, In 1779 Jefferson proposed A Bill for the More General Diffusion of Knowledge.
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Horace Mann, often called the Father of the Common School, began his career as a lawyer and legislator. When he was elected to act as Secretary of the newly-created Massachusetts Board of Education in 1837, he used his position to enact major educational reform. He spearheaded the Common School Movement,
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Open to All ... Coalition of Super-
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Post Civil War - Common Schools are enacted slowly throughout the states. ... Through 1900’s - Common Schools are marked by poor attendance and harsh punishments. ... The only reform movement that has stuck...
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Other well-publicized reasons for reform were the ideas that private schools were elitist, ... Not long after the common school movement began, a new movement appeared. This new movement called for compulsory attendance. Massachusetts passed a compulsory education law in 1852, although the Plymouth and Massachusetts...
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Back to Table of Contents of the Spring 1995 Issue of On Common Ground ... This could be a special opportunity for the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute to move into the forefront of the new high school reform movement.
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Nonetheless, the Common School movement laid the foundation for the system of public education and for the myth of commonality that remains an American belief ... Katz, Michael B. 1968. The Irony of Early School Reform. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Reprint, 2001, New York: Teachers College Press.
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Principal advocate of the nineteenth-century common school movement, Horace Mann became the catalyst for tuition-free public education and established ... The comparisons he made with European schools, especially German schools, offended school administrators. Critics questioned Mann's credentials to lead school reform.
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