[PDF] Horace Mann And The Public School In The United States eBook

Author : Gabriel Compayré
Publisher :
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 39,51 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Public schools
ISBN :

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Author : William Hayes
Publisher : R & L Education
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 42,17 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Education
ISBN :

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Horace Mann has been labeled by historians as the "father of the public schools." Just as judges and historians consult the views of the nation's Founding Fathers for guidance on contemporary issues, current educators can benefit by revisiting the original vision of Horace Mann for publicly supported schools. Such a study will not only be of interest to anyone interested in our schools, but it will also offer guidance as we consider our current educational issues. Much has changed since Horace Mann led the struggle to establish the common or public schools in the mid-19th century. Drastic changes in demographics, the emergence of teacher unions, and more recently, the standards movement, high-stakes testing, and accountability have greatly affected public schools. These factors, along with the additional powers taken on by the state and federal government have altered how schools function. The result has been the creation of a system that currently fails to offer an equal educational opportunity to all of our students. This book looks to the educational ideas of Horace Mann to offer guidance as to how this nation might preserve his original vision of a public school system that will offer a free and equal educational opportunity to all the children of this nation.

Author : Gabriel Compayri
Publisher : The Minerva Group, Inc.
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 38,97 MB
Release : 2002-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780898759181

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"Without any question," Americans say, "the noblest figure in the history of education in our country is that of Horace Mann." It is his biography which is offered here. Gabriel Compayre is the author of History of Pedagogy, Montaigne and the Education of the Judgment, Peter Abelard and the Rise of the Modern Universities, and Jean Jacques Rousseau and Education from Nature.

Author : Paul E. Peterson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 37,88 MB
Release : 2010-03-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674050112

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In this book Peterson interprets the history of American schools by placing major educational reformers in the context of their times and relates their thinking to our own era by scrutinizing the often unanticipated consequences of their commitments and ideas. These extraordinary individuals provided the critical ideas and articulated the ideals that motivated many others to search for ways to save the schools from the limitations in which they were embedded: Horace Mann, John Dewey, Martin Luther King, Al Shanker, William Bennett, and James S. Coleman. The drive to centralize was pervasive despite repeatedly expressed reform desire to customize education. Peterson argues that education has become an increasingly labor intensive industry that must reverse direction and become more capital intensive or it will descend in quality. Fortunately, technological change is making it possible radically alter the way in which education services are delivered, providing a new chance to save our schools.

Author : Gabriel Compayre
Publisher :
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 25,8 MB
Release : 2009-03
Category :
ISBN : 9781104132637

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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Author : Mary D Frost
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,62 MB
Release : 2023-07-18
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ISBN : 9781019993170

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A detailed biography of one of the most important and influential figures in American education, and his impact on the development of public schools in the United States. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Gabriel Compayre
Publisher :
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 48,80 MB
Release : 2015-07-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781440034794

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Excerpt from Horace Mann: And the Public School in the United States "Without any question," Americans say, "the noblest figure in the history of education in our country is that of Horace Mann." He owes this preeminence, not only to the brilliancy of his talents and the authority of his genius, but to the circumstances, the surroundings, in which his talents and genius were called upon to play their part. He may be said to have been the right man in "the right place," and we must add, also, "at the right time." The admiration so justly awarded to Mann by his countrymen has not been denied him abroad. Felix Pecaut, to speak of no one else, has said of him: "I wish that Mann's biography might be placed in the hands, not only of all professors, but of all their pupils." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."