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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.
Ann Ayscough Sands (January 5, 1761 – July 17, 1851) was an American educator. She was the founder of the first public school ever established in Brooklyn, New York. [1] St. Ann's Church, the first Episcopal church in that city, was named in her honor. [2]
In the 1850 census, South Carolina had a literacy rate that rivaled Rhode Island. [35] Republican governments during the Reconstruction era rebuilt the South's public school systems—establishing the first such schools in some places—and supported them with general taxes. For the first time, both whites and blacks would be educated at the ...
Music Academy of the West founders (8 P) Pages in category "Founders of American schools and colleges" The following 195 pages are in this category, out of 195 total.
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 ...
A Documentary History of Education in the South Before 1860 (5 vol 1952); vol 5 online; Thelin, John R. ed. Essential documents in the history of American higher education (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014) online; Willis, George, Robert V. Bullough, and John T. Holton, eds. The American Curriculum: A Documentary History (1992)
[1] [6] Later on, her school became known as the Murray Street Sabbath School. [1] Catherine's school has been named as the first documented Sunday school in the United States. [7] Ferguson's teaching instructions included the memorization of hymns and Scripture. Among Ferguson's visitors to the school were Isabella Graham and Reverend Isaac ...
Simon Green Atkins (1863–1934) was a North Carolina educator who was the founder and first president of Winston-Salem State University (previously the Slater Industrial Academy) and founded the North Carolina Negro Teachers' Association in 1881. [1]