Horace Mann: champion of public schools
Biography of one of America's great educators and an early and effective champion of public schools. In addition to serving as Secretary of the Massachusetts State Board of Education, Mann served in both the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1827 to 1833) and the Massachusetts Senate (1834 to 1837). Acknowledged by educational historians as the Father of the Common School movement, Mann argued that universal public education was the most efficient way to create a productive, disciplined citizenry
History
1 online resource (163 pages) portrait
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Chronology
Early years
Massachusetts legislator
Massachusetts schools : pre-Mann
Teachers and teaching
Preparation of teachers
Books and libraries
Education for health
Sectarian snipings
European pilgrimage
The Boston schoolmasters' controversy
The value of education
Influence at home and abroad
National statesman
Antioch years
Afterword
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010