Education Reform by Khadeeja Asif https://padlet.com/asifk/50tv0rpze5b1 3rd Period Moyer - APUSH en-us 2018-11-07 16:53:33 UTC 2025-12-05 18:45:41 UTC hello@padlet.com Key Figure: Horace Mann - "The Father of Public Education" gunterb1 https://padlet.com/asifk/50tv0rpze5b1/wish/301636197
  • Whig politician 
  • "If we want to compete with other countries we need to change schooling" 
  • "to save Republic, we need to educate individuals at least until the 8th grade"
    • ]]>     2018-11-07 17:01:42 UTC https://padlet.com/asifk/50tv0rpze5b1/wish/301636197     Key Fact: Role of Women asifk https://padlet.com/asifk/50tv0rpze5b1/wish/301640380 Woman were expected to teach at these public schools. This was the first real occupational opportunity for woman!]]> 2018-11-07 17:06:44 UTC https://padlet.com/asifk/50tv0rpze5b1/wish/301640380 Taxes Pay for Public Schools! ronanr https://padlet.com/asifk/50tv0rpze5b1/wish/301640459 - Free public education was common in New England but rare in the South, where most education took place at home with family members or tutors. 
    In the 1800's, Horace Mann of Massachusetts led the common-school movement, which advocated for local property taxes financing public schools.]]>     2018-11-07 17:06:50 UTC https://padlet.com/asifk/50tv0rpze5b1/wish/301640459     Key Figure: Dorothea Dix cowanr https://padlet.com/asifk/50tv0rpze5b1/wish/301641022 Dorothea Dix led the way for treatment of the mentally ill. She created the first generation of American mental asylums. During the Civil war she served as a superintendent of Army nurses.]]> 2018-11-07 17:07:34 UTC https://padlet.com/asifk/50tv0rpze5b1/wish/301641022 Key Fact: Public Education asifk https://padlet.com/asifk/50tv0rpze5b1/wish/301644568 Up until know, the opportunity for education was only provided at private schools or from mentors at home. Mann had the successful idea to provide a common school. This included free elementary education, teacher training programs, and curriculum reforms. ]]> 2018-11-07 17:11:45 UTC https://padlet.com/asifk/50tv0rpze5b1/wish/301644568 Key Facts!! ronanr https://padlet.com/asifk/50tv0rpze5b1/wish/301646238 - Mann promoted locally controlled, often one-room “common schools” in which children of all ages and classes were taught together; later he introduced the age-grading system.
    -Each state used federal funding from the Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Acts of 1862 and 1890 to set up “land grant colleges” that specialized in agriculture and engineering.
    -Many of what are now called “Historically Black Colleges and Universities” (HBCUs) had their origins in the Morrill Act of 1890.

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