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Common Schools were created to give children a place to receive an education. These schools focused on the 3 R's: Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic.
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Horace Mann was the Secretary Board of Education and would ride across the country to view schools. He noticed that the poor could not afford school and that the children there were treated horribly: chairs without backs, no textbooks, poor school building. Horace Mann was the influential figure who changed those things.
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Sarah Roberts tried to enroll in a better school that was closer to home but was denied because of her race. Her father then went forward to sue the city of Boston in an outrage. Down the road, Sarah would be accepted into that school, along with her sister and other African American children.
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Four million former slaves were able to become literate after the Civil War.
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Working group of educators who believed in creating standarizations for the American education curriculum.
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This was during the Urbanization era, where some things seemed to be improving while others were being extremely neglected. Immigrants were flooding into the Americas, making it hard for children to receive appropriate education. Thousands of new immigrants would come in yearly. Students had to cut their school attendance in half because of the lack of space. Schools were also not welcoming to the immigrant children. They treated them very nasty. -
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Believed in teaching a curriculum that was targeted at things that interested the students such as art, mechanics and animal husbandary. They also included teaching students about health and hygiene. Today, schools still believe in teaching material that is interesting to students so they can pursue their goals and dreams in life. -
Schools began rehearsing and practicing drills in case a fire or an earthquake were to occur.
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Separate but equal schools were created but in fact, they were not equal at all. After Brown brought this complaint to the court, it was a unanimous decision that schools become even more integrated and become equal. This has allowed for African American and white students to continue to attend school together and recieve equal education, regardless of the color of your skin. -
Provided funding for all levels of education and promoted post-secondary school education.
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Banned discrimination most notably in public schools.
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Provided funding to aid students who were disabled such as being blind or deaf. Before this, disabled children were not welcomed at schools. However, when they were finally allowed to attend, they showed an incredible improvement in access, achievement and accountability. Today, we still see those improvements with disabled students. -
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It was noticed that our education was mediocre and not educating students properly. Orginally, we were educating our children to live in a democracy but now that times had changed, our tactics also needed to follow. The five new basics were created and required students to get more credit hours to improve their educations. Today, we are still required to get certain credits in subjects and a certain number of credits to graduate. -
These schools offered different opportunities than we had seen in the past. These are smaller but focused on more specific things such as sports, art or Merit schools.
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Controversial Act. It orignally was placed to help the students. Unfortunately, it has created teachers who teach specifically from tests so their children will succeed in school rather than teaching material that is important to their lives.
