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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.
This second Morrill Land-Grant Act thus simultaneously provided increased higher educational opportunities for African Americans but encouraged segregation. [136] Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute was of national importance because it set the standards for what was called industrial education. [137]
Education reform is the process of constantly renegotiating and restructuring the educational standards to reflect the ever-evolving contemporary ideals of social, economic, and political culture. [9] Reforms can be based on bringing education into alignment with a society's core values.
The Second Great Awakening was a Protestant religious revival during the late 18th to early 19th century in the United States. It spread religion through revivals and emotional preaching and sparked a number of reform movements. Revivals were a key part of the movement and attracted hundreds of converts to new Protestant denominations.
He valued social and educational reforms for the middle class and rejected the capitalist power which elevated the powerful figures at the expense of others. [55] Regardless of his adversaries' attacks, he remained persuasive of his goals. Owen funded kids' schools and advocated for free education, equal rights and freedom.
This second Morrill Land-Grant Act thus simultaneously provided increased higher educational opportunities for African Americans but encouraged segregation. [ 39 ] Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute was of national importance because it set the standards for what was called industrial education. [ 40 ]
"A Broader Vision of Education: Jefferson’s Efforts to Reform Educational Philosophy." in The Palgrave Handbook of Educational Thinkers (Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022) pp. 1-13. Hellenbrand, Harold. The unfinished revolution: Education and politics in the thought of Thomas Jefferson (U of Delaware Press, 1990). online
Goodchild, Lester F., et al., eds. Higher Education in the American West: Regional History and State Contexts (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) Higgins, Andrew Stone. Higher Education For All: Racial Inequality, Cold War Liberalism, and the California Master Plan (The University of North Carolina Press, 2023) Jencks, Christopher, and David Riesman.