Common school movement

The Common School Movement

By ashleyrenehan
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    The time in which the common school movement took place

    the common school movement was the attempt to make education available to all children.
  • Horace Mann Proposed a system of free education

    Horace Mann Proposed a system of free education

    This required each school district to provide schools for all students to attend regardless of their religious or social class status.
  • The First State Sponsored Normal School

    The First State Sponsored Normal School

    The goal of normal schools was to provide training for teachers. The first normal school was created in Lexington, Massachusetts by Cyrus Peirce.

  • Women began to be hired in school districts as educators

    Females have not been given the same education opportunities that men have, so this movement changes that by allowing women to become employed as educators
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    Women's Classroom Experience Increased

    Women continued to turn to education as their profession, they continued to try hard in training classes over the summer.

  • The Port Royal Experience

    The attempt to prepare recently freed slaves for joining the post-war society, including being educated in schools. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CbQAIYcxck
  • The Hampton Institute

    The Hampton Institute

    This school began as an agricultural school for recently freed slaves
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmJ8VO5Ne2Q
  • The Hampton Institute Added a new Department

    The Hampton Institute Added a new Department

    led by Captain Richard Henry Pratt, an Indian Department was added to the Hampton Institute.