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Massachusetts ordered by law that children should have an education.
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The entire nation would support letting schools be free so that all may attend,
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Academies were opened to teach women how to become teachers.
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Horace Mann was the first Secretary of Education. He promoted public school and went around checking on the schools. He visited thousands of schools within his 6 years. He made the schools into what we think of school being, with chairs, blackboards, and texts.
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Roberts sued the city of Boston so that his daughter could go to any school. Separate could be equal. Boston because the first city in the U.S. to ban segregated schools.
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One of Froebel's pupils, Margaretha Schurz, opened the first kindergarten in the United States in Watertown, Wisconsin. Today, the kindergarten is recognized for its importance in the educational process and as a socialiZing force. It is the cornerstone of the American educational system.
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School system that didn't erase religion but embraced it. Fought to have religion in the school system. Created a separate Catholic school system.
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Sold 122 million copies. Students would learn how to read at the same time learn how to moralities of society at the same time.
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Learning needs to be centered around the child. Students need to learn from what is around them. Schools need to have art, history and science.
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Emerson School, Gary Indiana
Kept kids in motion and kept kids engaged in the learning. Classes were made around the students that kept the students busy and interests the child. "Every working man is a scholar and every scholar was a working man. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/JOTS/v31/v31n1/pdf/volk.pdf -
These schools taught immigrants how to speak english. Teachers would be kind to students who were learning english.
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Schools started to create organizations where there were teachers, librarians, cafeteria works, and so on to make sure every part in the school was being ran by someone.
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Fought for the segregation to end in the school systems. The High Court banned segregation in public schools.
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Equal chance of education means an equal chance at life. Passed civil rights act.
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Free public education for all students no matter the disability.
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All students will have education no matter what. They don't have to worry about keeping up with the class because the teacher will help keep them up to date on school work.
