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EducationFrom 1800-1860
Presentation by Caley, Crystal, and Millie
Why Reform?
•Undeveloped schools•Increased Funding•Racial Discrimination•Gender Equality
Educational Problems
• Largest Problem- The teachers lacked training. The teachers were also unprepared. They acted more like babysitters than educators.
• Small overcrowded schoolhouses
• No desks
• Little to no teaching materials
Influential Reformers
• Noah Webster
• William McGuffey
• Horace Mann
• Henry Barnard
These men all shared one goal. They all wanted to educate America’s youth as well as possible.
Noah Webster• Unhappy with
crowded American Schools
• Preferred American textbooks
• Wrote First American Dictionary
• Considered an American Hero for all his accomplishments
William McGuffey• Compiler of the
McGuffey Eclectic Series (a series of elementary readers placed in Western schools)
• His series greatly influenced American minds.
• The 120 million copies sold affected people from all walks of life.
Horace Mann• “Father of American Public
School Education”• Edited the “Common School
Journal”• Wrote 12 famous annual
reports• Secretary of the Massachusetts
Commission to improve education (Later to become the State Board of Education)
Believed- “No republic can endure unless its citizens are literate and educated.”
Henry Barnard• Secretary of the Connecticut
board of commissioners of common schools
• What did he do?1.School Inspections2.Recommended Textbooks 3.Organized teacher institutions and associations for parents and teachers.4.Helped establish additional
legislative measures on education
One of the leaders in the movement to reform common schools of America.
Racial Inequality in Education
• Earliest form was given by Christian missionaries
• Southern states opposed education of their slaves.
• Pennsylvania started the education of other races, which eventually led to integration of public schools.
Women and their Education
• In the early 1800s, women couldn’t continue their education after grammar school.
• “Academies” were created for women and by women who wanted equality with men.
• Oberlin College, the first college to admit men and women (blacks and whites), provided women with an opportunity to receive a higher education for the first time.
Influential Women • Mary Lyon
• Emma Willard
• Catharine Beecher
All together led the Female Seminary
Movement by starting schools
for women’s education.
Effects of the Education Movement
• Formation of improved American schools
• Integration of public schools• Establishment of new colleges• First American-made textbooks• Women’s Rights Movement• Enhanced learning for people of all
ages
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