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Proposes plan to establish University of Pennsylvania. Founded an academy, private secondary school, who's useful knowledge and science differed notably from the traditional Latin grammar school.
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Birthplace: Shadwell in the Colony of Virginia
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Birthplace: Byberry, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
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Birthplace: West Hartford, Connecticut
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Rush's plan for a comprehensive system state schools and colleges combined private and public interests. Rush wanted schools to be denominationally affiliated and offer a faith-based education.
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Principal founder of the University of Virginia. Education's major purpose was to promote a republican society of literature and well-informed citizens. The bill anticipated the idea of academic merit scholarships.
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Birthplace: Franklin, Massachusetts
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Birthplace: East Hampton, New York
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Birthplace: Washington County, Pennslyvania
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Mann sought to win national support for public schools. Used his political acumen to mobilize support and build a coalition for public education
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Beecher founded and operated the Hartford Female Seminary, in Hartford, Connecticut until 1831. Then created the Western Female Institute as a model for a proposed network of teacher-education institutions in 1832.
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After years of intensive research, his American Dictionary was published. Believing that a common language and literature would build a sense of national identity, Webster worked to construct a distinctive American version of the English language with its own idiom, pronunciation, and style.
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Publishes suggestions Respecting Improvements in Education
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Wrote the widely used and highly popular McGuffey readers. Reaffirming the values of white, middle-class, Protestant Americans, McGuffey readers emphasized literacy.
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Birthplace: Hale's Ford, Virginia
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Washington developed a symbolic racial theory that blacks and whites were mutually dependent economically but could remain separate socially.
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Birthplace: Great Barrington, Massachusetts
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Booker T. Washington endorsed industrial education, believing that African American youth should be trained as skilled domestic servants, farmers, and vocational workers in trades rather than educated for the professions.
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Developed the concept of the "talented tenth", believing that African Americans needed well-educated leaders, to which at least 10 percent of the African American population should receive a higher education.
