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Education for children was starting to become more important practiced.
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Thomas Jefferson established the University of Virginia. -
Tim McGuffy wrote reading textbooks for students to learn how to read, spell, and learn moral lessons. Along with reading McGuffy wrote textbooks on history, biology, botany, literature, speech, and proper behavior which helped standardized education in the United States. -
Horace Mann became the first secretary of the State Board of Education in Massachusetts. He started a journal called the "Common Sense Journal". This journal taught teachers about education. He also established teacher-training schools which were called "normal schools". These schools taught teachers the most effective way to educate their students. Not only did he try to improve teachers' ways of educating, but he also tried to increase their salaries and raise money for school materials. -
In the early 1840s, the opening of the Oregon Trail and the movement of settlers meant that many children were left with little to no schooling. Although a lot of children did not receive schooling, free public education was more accessible and widely available. -
Opportunity and availability for free education increase all over the United States.
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The first official African American school was established in Washington D.C. The school was called Paul Laurence Dunbar High. -
Public schools added kindergarten classes into their schools. Although the United States started the classes to help poor students become educated, many students learned simple ideas through play. -