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in the early 1800's new england started to provide free education,
during this time not all communities had schools and some had fees -
around 1817 when schools were starting to run thomas gallaudet created a school in connecticut for pepole who were deaf, and around the same time sam gridley reated a way to teach people with vision problmes
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Horace Mann was the leader of the educational reform and became heaqd of massachusetts board of education in 1837 he made many changes and improvements.
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in 1839 the first normal school was founded, this was a school for training high-school as teachers.
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during the 1850s many colleges and universities were created