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Digital History: The Struggle for Public Schools

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The ideal of public education has been one in the United States from the very earliest settlements. Read two teachers' view of the state of education as they taught in the early 1800s. Find out who supported the idea of free schooling supported by the government, and see how the number of colleges and universities increased over the first half of the 19th century.

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Concepts
public education, reform movements
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broadened curriculum, corporal punishment in schools, education of women, free schooling, public schools, public universities, digital history, education in the u.s. 1815-1860, horace mann, mt. holyoke, oberlin college, the struggle for public schools
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  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
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