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Gutenberg's invention allowed for books to be mass producing, leading to more people having access to printed works, especially textbooks.
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Webster created many books in his time due to current textbooks being British oriented, he wanted ones that would reflect America and so created his own.
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Catherine Beecher was the first to suggest reading aloud to children, leading to the foundation of kindergarten. She also designed a form of calisthetics for the children to help them get exercise.
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Horace Mann helped to reshape the education system, by going around to several schoolhouses and observing the school grounds, reforming them into normal schools.
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Booker T. Washington helped to establish one of the first black schools in the country. He and the future students would build it from the ground up on a former plantation.
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Dewey was a philosopher who studied education and how children grew in there enviroment. He became the founder of progressivism
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Montessori established the Orthophenric school in 1900 which helped disabled children become productive.
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Terman was fascinated by gifted and genius children, believeing that there intelligence should be reconized and taught differently than children that were not as smart. In this he helped to establish IQ tests.
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Brown v Board of Education was monumental achievement in equal education. Up till now the country had practiced the believe of "seperate but equal" despite many black schools not having equallity at all. This overturned that making it unlawful to have seperate schools.
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This act prevented segregation of every kind, leading to the schools being completely unified.
