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Education accessible to the common person
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Women started teaching in classrooms in the 1820’s which before, was male dominated.
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In 1837 Oberlin College welcomed its first group of women becoming the first ever college in the USA to become coed -
This school was one of the earliest public schools to offer a true curriculum and legitimate classrooms. -
He doubled state appropriations for education, built 15 new secondary schools, increased teacher sell Larry’s by 50%, and past nations first compulsory school attendance law, proposed that public education (tax supported elementary schools) should be rights to all citizens -
The Ashman Institute, present day Lincoln University, was the 1st institution to ever provide a higher type of education for black students and now is regarded as a fantastic HBCU that still contributes to the progress of BIPOC students. -
The first ever kindergarten in America is created and founded by a woman named Margarethe Schurz -
The NEA who’s states mission is "to advocate for education professionals and to unite our members and the nation to fulfill the promise of public education to prepare every student to succeed in a diverse and interdependent world” was founded with 43 people and now holds over 3 million members. -
These acts signed by President Lincoln allotted thousands of acres of land to each state for the purpose of building schools or using it to further education in other ways. -
Half of America’s children attended public elementary schools by 1865! -
NJ was the last state to eliminate a payment for elem ed in 1871