Horace Mann by Kaitlyn Doza https://padlet.com/kdd90940/b3m29os5ima4 "Father of the Common School" en-us 2019-04-16 17:53:53 UTC 2024-10-28 14:33:20 UTC hello@padlet.com Who Was He? kdd90940 https://padlet.com/kdd90940/b3m29os5ima4/wish/352071588 - Born on May 4, 1796 in Franklin, Massachusetts and grew up very poor. He died on August 2, 1859. 
- Horace Mann was an American education reformer and politician. 
- He served in Massachusetts as a member of the House of Representatives from 1827 to 1833. 
- Mann also served in the MA Senate from 1835 to 1837.  
-. Horace was the first great American advocate of public education. He believed in a democratic society, where education would be free, universal, and nonsectarian
-  Mann is credited today as the "Father of the Common School Movement"]]> 2019-04-16 18:00:29 UTC https://padlet.com/kdd90940/b3m29os5ima4/wish/352071588 The Reform kdd90940 https://padlet.com/kdd90940/b3m29os5ima4/wish/352074652 - In 1837, Horace Mann became secretary in the board of education of Massachusetts 
- He had no interest in education, but he was being offered a paid office position. 
- Once he took the job, he dropped all of his other works and focused solely on his education career.]]> 2019-04-16 18:07:33 UTC https://padlet.com/kdd90940/b3m29os5ima4/wish/352074652 What Did He Do? kdd90940 https://padlet.com/kdd90940/b3m29os5ima4/wish/353236595 - After he was elected Secretary of the newly-created Massachusetts Board of Education, he used his position to enact a major educational reform, "The Common School Movement". ]]> 2019-04-23 03:38:48 UTC https://padlet.com/kdd90940/b3m29os5ima4/wish/353236595 The Common School Movement kdd90940 https://padlet.com/kdd90940/b3m29os5ima4/wish/353236994 - The Common School Movement ensured that every child could receive a basic education funded by local taxes. 
- Horace believed that public schooling was the center of good citizenship.
- As time passed, Horace knew that public schools quality would have to be raised, and with that teaching was the key to improvement. ]]> 2019-04-23 03:42:09 UTC https://padlet.com/kdd90940/b3m29os5ima4/wish/353236994 Mann's Six Principles of Educations kdd90940 https://padlet.com/kdd90940/b3m29os5ima4/wish/353237296 - Horace also developed his very influential, although at the time controversial, main principles regarding public education and it's troubles. ]]> 2019-04-23 03:44:15 UTC https://padlet.com/kdd90940/b3m29os5ima4/wish/353237296 Results & Facts kdd90940 https://padlet.com/kdd90940/b3m29os5ima4/wish/353237772 - As you can see just looking around, Horace's idea of public education worked. 
- We attend school for free, but the public pays in local taxes. 
- We also have different ethnicities in our own school. 
- Horace Mann got married twice
- Horace was the president of Antioch College 
- He had three children: Horace Jr., George Combe, and Benjamin Pickman. ]]> 2019-04-23 03:47:48 UTC https://padlet.com/kdd90940/b3m29os5ima4/wish/353237772