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  2. Horace Mann - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Common school - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Horace Mann School - Wikipedia

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    The Horace Mann School was named after Horace Mann, who was a lawyer who served in the Massachusetts State Legislature and was the first secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education from 1837 and 1848, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, and the first president of Antioch College. He used each of his positions to proclaim that ...

  5. History of education in the United States - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Prussian education system - Wikipedia

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    Calvin E. Stowe, Henry Barnard, Horace Mann, George Bancroft and Joseph Cogswell all had a vigorous interest in German education. The Prussian approach was used for example in the Michigan Constitution of 1835, which fully embraced the Prussian system by introducing a range of primary schools, secondary schools, and the University of Michigan ...

  7. History of education in Massachusetts - Wikipedia

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    The first state-funded normal school in the United States was founded thanks largely to the efforts of Horace Mann and James G. Carter. [23] In 1844 that school moved from its original site of Lexington to West Newton, and then in 1853 to Framingham.

  8. Horace Mann names top teacher, administrator in Springfield ...

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    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 ...

  9. History of education - Wikipedia

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    The once and future school: Three hundred and fifty years of American secondary education (1996). Parkerson Donald H., and Jo Ann Parkerson. Transitions in American education: a social history of teaching (2001) online; Reese, William J. America's Public Schools: From the Common School to No Child Left Behind (Johns Hopkins U. Press, 2005 ...