Important Figures
Visited and documented the conditions of schools in Massachusetts in the early 1800's.
Who was Horace Mann?
Prior to the establishment of free public schools, colonial communities did this IF they wanted to hire a teacher for their children.
What is pooled their resources?
Thomas Jefferson believed these children should receive enough education to prepare them for marriage.
Who were girls?
Thomas Jefferson believed that all of this group of children should receive a free education for three years.
Who are white girls and boys?
The Founding Father of the US who advocated for a free public education system.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
In this state, Thomas Jefferson tried but failed to established a statewide public education system.
What was Virginia?
At dame schools, young children learned their letters and a little discipline with the help of this "textbook."
What is a hornbook?
He believed all children, rich and poor, should be educated together.
Who was Horace Mann?
Created the first American textbook.
Who was Noah Webster?
By this date public school expenditures rose from $69 million in 1870 to $147 million.
What was 1890?
It was the most common early schoolbook and was used to teach reading and the Protestant catechism.
What was The New England Primer?
In an effort to get his daughter enrolled in a school near where they lived, he took his case to the state legislature in this state in the 1850s.
What is Massachusetts?
Promoted the idea that young female woman from the Eastern US should be employed as teachers in frontier schools in the Western US.
Who was Catharine Beecher?
Despite the obstacles of segregation and unequal funding, the level of literacy among African American rose to this percentage in the decades following the Civil War?
What was 70%?
The creation of this textbook is responsible for the variation in spelling and pronunciation that developed between British English and American English.
What is the Blueback Speller?
After this period in history, the US Congress passed a law that required states to offer free non-sectarian education to all children.
What was the Civil War?
Was a prominent force behind the development of the private Catholic school system in the US.
Who was Archbishop John Hughes?
This US government-run Indian residential school was located in Pennsylvania and operated between 1879 and 1918.
What was Carlisle Indian Industrial School?
In addition to teaching students to read, the McGuffey readers reinforced this?
What is "common morality of society"?
These children were routinely taken from their home and families and sent to government run boarding schools where they were forced to abandon their languages, customs and dress.
Who were Native American children?