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Theorized believed children learned through senses. His greatest work was Émile, which described the importance of letting children explore on their own and describes how education should take place.
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Robert Owen established the first infant school in Scotland.
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Froebel believed in "self activity" meaning that children should be able to express themselves through free play without a teacher having them do something specific, teachers should be encouraging of this to help students develop and become more educated by themselves.
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Margarethe Schurz founded the first kindergarten in Watertown, Wisconsin, in 1856.
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The first of these schools opened in Berlin, Ontario at Central School.
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Established a laboratory school at the University of Chicago.
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First Montessori school opens in New York City as a private school
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First head Start program started at Johns Hopkins University as a 8 week summer program.
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Started in 1990 and wasn't until 2005 when in several states preschool was made reality for all 4 year olds.
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Educational initiative for K-12 . Students should know English language arts and mathematics at the conclusion of each school grade.