The Common school Movement

By averymichel

  • The Common School Movement

    a video on the movement and its pros and cons (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBokePYhBfY)

  • the War of 1812

    This war happened 8 years before the Common school movement.

  • Boston English High School

    This was one of the first public high schools to open in the US.
    (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iel0aBT7qWc)
  • Catherine Beecher

    Catherine Beecher

    She opened a private all girls school

  • New England Asylum for the Blind

    The Perkins School for the Blind was opened in Massachusetts, becoming the first school in the U.S for students with disabilities
  • Horace Mann

    Horace Mann

    Secretary of the newly formed Massachusetts State Board of Education.
  • The African Institute

    The African Institute

    Opened in Cheyney, Pennsylvania and is now called Cheyney University, it the oldest institution of higher learning for African Americans.

  • Roberts v. City of Boston

    The Massachusetts Supreme Court rules that the Boston Public Schools can deny enrolment of African American children to segregated, "whites-only" schools.
  • The University of Iowa

    The University of Iowa

    the first state university to admit men and women on an equal basis.

  • The National Teachers Association

    was founded by 43 educators in Philadelphia
  • The Civil War

    The Civil War

    The start of the Civil War.
    (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44wJ1gnBK0c)