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Colonial Schooling
In many communities schools were neither free nor public. Particular people and towns pooled their resources to hire teachers, some parents paid fees to send their children to dame schools, the focus in the early times was religion based. I believe that colonial schooling was important in relation to the state of public schooling because it set a foundation for education, but also provided many opportunities to learn from educational mistakes and improve upon them. -
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Thomas Jefferson Image. https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/jefferson-thomas. Accessed 3 Mar. 2018. -
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Catharine Beecher, Champion of Women's Education. Retrieved March 03, 2018, from https://connecticuthistory.org/catharine-beecher-champion-of-womens-education/ Catherine Beecher Image. http://www.pbs.org/onlyateacher/beecher.html. Accessed 3 Mar. 2018. Colonial Times Education Image. http://alumni.cc.gettysburg.edu/~s330558/schooling.html. Accessed 3 Mar. 2018. Colonial Times Timeline Image. http://www.carolana.com/SC/Education/sc_education_1700s.html. Accessed 3 Mar. 2018. -
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Frederick Douglass Image. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1539.html. Accessed 3 Mar. 2018. Horace Mann Image. 22 Feb. 2018 https://www.biography.com/people/horace-mann-9397522.Accessed 3 Mar. 2018. Sadker, D. M., & Zittleman, K. R. (2013). Teachers, Schools, and
Society. New York: McGraw-Hill.School: The Story of American Public Education. 2011, October 04. Retrieved March 04, 2018, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPc7RnGOho0&feature=youtu.be&list=PL00795BC38B43D4
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Thomas Jefferson
As a member if the Virginia Assembly, Jefferson drafted a proposal to reform education to include all Americans beyond the elite class, which began his legacy that public education was essential to democracy. Jefferson’s actions were important because he helped expand knowledge from solely religion to other academic skills, expand education to individuals beyond the elite class, and enforce that democracy survival depended on educating all Americans. -
Catherine Beecher
Promoted female teachers, founded colleges to educate women and trained them for service in the west. Through Beecher's actions more opportunities in education for women were created and Beecher also helped establish teaching as a respectable career for women. -
Horace Mann
Mann endeavored to create common schools that would be free of charge and funded by tax dollars so that the poorest of the children could attend. He helped reform education through his belief that practical and idealistic goals should be taught in education. His actions created an environment of open opportunity to all children, regardless of their economic status, and created the mindset that usable skills should be taught to children to use in their adult lives and benefit of society. -
Frederick Douglass
As a former slave and abolitionist, Douglass encouraged parents to aim for obtaining admission of students into the best and nearest schoolhouse in their own neighborhoods. Frederick’s encouragement was an important event because he pushed for schools to end segregation based on race.
