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Teachers were not necessarily qualified for the job. There were no established qualifications for teachers, so anyone who was somewhat educated could teach a class of more than sixty students! There were young children and older teens in one little classroom, with narrow benches without backs.

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Cameron Mickey, Cole Lutz, Adam Maida, Haley Allcorn, Ariel Radinovic

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Cameron Mickey, Cole Lutz, Adam Maida, Haley Allcorn, Ariel Radinovic

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They improved many schools, but many women still could not have a good education. They separated education into groups. They created harsher requirements for teachers.

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Innovation & Opportunity | Center for Education Reform

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Our job at the Center for Education Reform has always been to create the conditions for both, through law and policy, public awareness and communication.

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They wanted everyone to be able to read and write so

that "democracy could prosper." They wanted lower costs for people to attend school.

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People had the option to opt out of the federal education programs. They also established more schools so the quality of the schools and education would improve.

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Horace Mann, often called the Father of the Common School, was one of the leading reformers of education. He began reforming education when he was elected as secretary of the newly formed Massachusetts Board of Education. He was elected in 1837.

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Many people were not skilled at reading and writing, so they wanted

a better education. Teachers also did not know enough to properly

teach, and classrooms were too crowded with children of all ages in the same room.