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Lancasterian model introduced, one headmaster can teach hundreds of students at a time. Master gives a lesson to the older students who then pass it down to the younger kids. Exercise discipline so they will be good workers.
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Free public schools proposed at a Boston town meeting, many wage earners oppose it because they don't want to pay the taxes.
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The first permanent school for people who are deaf was founded in the U.S. by Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc.
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First public high school opens in the U.S. in Boston. Boston English High School.
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The state of Massachusetts passes a law requiring towns of more than 500 people to have a public highschool open to all students free of charge.
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The New England Asylum for the Blind, now the Perkins School for the Blind, opens in Massachusetts, becoming the first school in the U.S. for children with visual disabilities.
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Southern states still forbid slaves to read, but 5% of them become literate anyway at great personal risk.
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William Holmes McGuffey's readers is published. They have a secular tone which sets them apart from the Puritan texts of the day. They are the most influential textbooks of the 19th century.
