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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
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 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
This school began as an agricultural school for recently freed slaves
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The Hampton Institute Added a new Department
led by Captain Richard Henry Pratt, an Indian Department was added to the Hampton Institute.
