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This man created the Monitorial school system. This technique that he created is considered "mass teaching." "30,000 [students were] being taught in 95 Lancasterian schools."
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This man was the creator of Common Schools. As well as a teacher, he was also a lawyer, senator, secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education, and took the seat of John Quincy Adams in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Myrtilla Miller was the first to create a teacher's school for African American women. She also opened a Colored Girls School in 1851.
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This part of the federal government was created to move Native Americans to reservations. A slogan that was once "Kill the Indian to save the man." (https://www.raceforward.org/research/reports/historical-timeline-public-education-us )
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Lousiana law threatens jail time for anyone teaching slaves.
( “The Multicultural History of American Education.” Teachers, Schools, and Society: a Brief Introduction to Education, by David Miller Sadker and Karen R. Zittleman, McGraw-Hill Education, 2018, pp. 113–148. ) -
Common schools were started by a man named Horace Mann. They focused mainly on the "common people" such as immigrants, small farmers, and urban laborers. These were also the start of free public elementary schools.
( “The Multicultural History of American Education.” Teachers, Schools, and Society: a Brief Introduction to Education, by David Miller Sadker and Karen R. Zittleman, McGraw-Hill Education, 2018, pp. 113–148. ) -
These schools started because children would not go to public school. This is the beginning of the combination of education and the juvenile system.
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Myrtilla Miller opens the first school to train black women as teachers.
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The Bureau of Indian Affairs strikes again when congress passes a law making it illegal for Native Americans to be taught in their native language.
( “The Multicultural History of American Education.” Teachers, Schools, and Society: a Brief Introduction to Education, by David Miller Sadker and Karen R. Zittleman, McGraw-Hill Education, 2018, pp. 113–148. ) -
This was a court case that rendered education, as well as all public places be "separate but equal." However, it is common knowledge that black classrooms were underfunded and that blacks did not receive an equal education.
( “The Multicultural History of American Education.” Teachers, Schools, and Society: a Brief Introduction to Education, by David Miller Sadker and Karen R. Zittleman, McGraw-Hill Education, 2018, pp. 113–148. )
