Horace Mann's Educational Reform

Horace Mann's Educational Reform

Horace Mann

American educational reformer and politician, known as the "Father of American Public Education." As the first secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education, he promoted a free, non-sectarian, and universal public education system (the Common School movement) and laid the foundation for the modern American education system, including the establishment of teacher training schools.

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Year Horace Mann
1796
Birth of Horace Mann (Period: May 4, 1796, Location: Franklin, Massachusetts, United States)
1830
Promotion of the Common School movement (Age: 33 years old, Period: 1830s–1840s, Location: Various parts of the United States, centered in Massachusetts)
1832
Marriage (Horace Mann, Charlotte Messer Mann, Mary Peabody Mann, Age: 35 years old, Period: 1830s (first wife died in 1832, remarried later), Location: Massachusetts, United States)
1837
Establishment of the Massachusetts Board of Education and initiation of educational reforms (Age: 40 years old, Period: 1837, Location: Massachusetts, United States)
1848
U.S. Representative (successor to John Quincy Adams, Age: 51 years old, Period: 1848–1853, Location: Washington, D.C., United States)
1859
Death of Horace Mann (Age: 63 years old, Period: August 2, 1859)

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