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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.
As of the 2017–18 academic year, there are approximately 4,014,800 K-12 teachers in the United States (3,300,000 traditional public school teachers; 205,600 teachers in public charter schools; and 509,200 private school teachers). [224]
The University of Chicago A History (U of Chicago Press, 2015) online; Dalton, Jon C. "Community service and spirituality: Integrating faith, service, and social justice at DePaul University." Journal of College and Character 8.1 (2007). online; Diner, Steven. A City and Its Universities: Public Policy in Chicago, 1892–1919 (1980). online
Francis Wayland Parker (October 9, 1837 – March 2, 1902) was a pioneer of the progressive school movement in the United States. He believed that education should include the complete development of an individual — mental, physical, and moral.
Democracy is in the Streets: From Port Huron to the Siege of Chicago. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1994 ISBN 978-0-674-19725-1. Pardun, Robert. "Prairie Radical: A Journey Through the Sixties" Shire Press, 2001 ISBN 0-918828-20-1. Pekar, Harvey. Students for a Democratic Society, a Graphic History. New York City: Hill & Wang, 2009.
The Founding Fathers of the United States, often simply referred to as the Founding Fathers or the Founders, were a group of late-18th-century American revolutionary leaders who united the Thirteen Colonies, oversaw the War of Independence from Great Britain, established the United States of America, and crafted a framework of government for ...
Mary Jo Deegan, in her 1988 book Jane Addams and the Men of the Chicago School, 1892–1918 was the first person to recover Addams' influence on sociology. [147] Deegan's work has led to recognition of Addams's place in sociology.
Despite claims that Paine changed the spelling of his family name upon his emigration to America in 1774, [1] he was using "Paine" in 1769, while still in Lewes, Sussex. [17] Old School at Thetford Grammar School, where Paine was educated. He attended Thetford Grammar School (1744–1749), at a time when there was no compulsory education. [18]