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The McGuffy readers were textbooks that stressed religious values and emphasized moral lessons which intended to develop students into good citizens.
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As the "father of the common school", Horace Mann worked to increase funding for public schools and to attain better training for teachers. His strongest belief was that free, universal education should be available to all children in the United States.
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From creating standard curriculum to creating model classrooms where future teachers and administrators would play out potential scenarios, the Lexington Normal School essentially became the birthplace of American pedagogy.
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The 1852 law required every city and town to offer primary school, focusing on grammar and basic arithmetic. Parents who refused to send their children to school were fined and or even stripped of their parental rights, and their children apprenticed to others.
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This law included mandatory attendance for children between the ages of eight and fourteen for at least three months out of each year, and of these twelve weeks at least six had to be consecutive.
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"The first institution anywhere in the world to provide higher education in the arts and sciences for male youth of African decent"
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Forty three teachers in Philadelphia come together to form this united voice for public education.
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Charles Darwin's study explains his theory that animals have evolved to their current forms through the process of natural selection. This theory is still extremely controversial, as it challenges religious beliefs. Link text
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The United States separate and take sides and educational progress is put on hold until the war is over.
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Slavery is abolished with this new amendment to the constitution.
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With the end of the Civil War, many southern educational institutions are left in shambles, either closed during the war or in bad physical condition. Link text
