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Horace Mann and Education

By jdaniel1700

  • Birth

    Horace Mann was born in Franklin, MA.

  • Outline Published

    Published Outline for an Institute for the Education of Teachers. This was about the necessity of teacher training.

  • Common School Movement Began

    Horace Mann became secretary of MA Board of Education and began pushing for a tax-funded, well-developed public school system.

  • BiWeekly Journal

    Founded a biweekly journal for teachers to reshape the way public school was perceived around the nation.

  • Bureaucracy

    He publicized an idea of a central bureaucracy in the states for primary and secondary education.

  • Mr. President

    He resigned and became the President of a new college in Yellow Springs called Antioch College.

  • Death

    Horace Mann died in Yellow Springs, OH.