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Horace Mann was born in Franklin, Massachusetts. [4] His father was a farmer without much money. Mann was the great-grandson of Samuel Man. [5]From age ten to age twenty, he had no more than six weeks' schooling during any year, [6] but he made use of the Franklin Public Library, the first public library in America.
A common school was a public school in the United States during the 19th century. Horace Mann (1796–1859) was a strong advocate for public education and the common school. In 1837, the state of Massachusetts appointed Mann as the first secretary of the State Board of Education [1] where he began a revival of common school education, the effects of which extended throughout America during the ...
Reformer Horace Mann sought to emulate the Prussian model of education. Upon becoming the secretary of education of Massachusetts in 1837, Horace Mann (1796–1859) worked to create a statewide system of professional teachers, based on the Prussian model of "common schools." Prussia was attempting to develop a system of education by which all ...
Horace Mann was by far the most influential American educator of the 19th century. Mann's importance came in multiple areas. He was an energetic and highly articulate advocate, especially universal education. He envisioned local common schools available to every white boy, regardless of their family poverty.
A century of public teacher education: The story of the State teachers colleges as they evolved from the normal schools. Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-8371-3939-5. LCCN 78-104271. SBN 8371-3939-2. Herbst, Jurgen (1980). "Nineteenth-century normal schools in the United States: A fresh look". History of Education. 9 (3): 219– 227.
The phrase has been used by education leaders, including Marilyn Roth of the National Education Association in 1987. [11] In a 1989 piece in The Phi Delta Kappa, "The Horse is Dead", [12] Dr Leslie A. Howard connected the term to Horace Mann's experiences in Prussia in 1843 but offered no references or evidence for the connection. Howard's ...
Jason Wind, the executive director of school support for School District 186, left, was named Horace Mann Administrator of Year, while Southeast High School science teacher Jason Potter was named ...
Saving Schools: From Horace Mann to Virtual Learning (2010), theorists from Mann to the present; Reese, William J. America's Public Schools: From the Common School to No Child Left Behind Johns Hopkins U. Press, 2005. online; Rury; John L. Education and Social Change: Themes in the History of American Schooling. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 2002.