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Most people were illiterate and could maybe read a bit from the Bible or recognize common words. Literacy was for privelaged and wealthy people, not common man.
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Introduced the idea that every person should receive a guaranteed three years of public schooling.
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Webster publishes the first Bluebook. Webster's dictionary was what followed.
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Horace Mann inspects schools and is disheartened at what he finds.
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90 black astudents petitioned the Boston School Board to put an end to segregation in schools.
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The first law of its kind passed in the United States
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The Norrth beats the South in the Civil War. Slavery abolished in the South under President Abraham Lincoln.
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John Dewey publishes School and Society.
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Two million children still working rather than schooling across United States.
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The end of WWI saw the "end" and destruction of German language books. 35 states banned these books in schools.
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One million students are tested each year.
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45% in 1945!
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Martin Luther King Jr leads the nation in the Civil Rights Movement.
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George W Bush enacts NCLB
