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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Horace Mann"”.
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The significance of the work of Colonel Francis Wayland Parker in the progressive educational movement with special reference to his influence on John Dewey
… of common schools was in danger of failure Horace Mann gave his life to the promotion of the interests of the Common school.</p><p>In 1837, the very year Horace Mann gave up his prospect of a famous political career to become Secretary of the State Board of Education in Massachusetts, …
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A History of the Events Leading to the Establishment of the First State Normal School in America
… to the efforts of James Carter (1795-1849) and Horace Mann (179 6-1859), and because of the generosity of a Boston merchant, the Massachusetts legislature was moved to fund a normal school project for a three-year period. The following year, on July 3, in the town of Lexington, the first state …
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Connections between New Hampshire superintendents' leadership orientations and their perceptions of selected issues associated with politics in education
… public schooling by common school crusaders like Horace Mann and Henry Barnard and continuing in the twentieth century with adoption of Frederick Taylor's scientific management principles. Despite commonly held notions of the separateness and distance between politics and education, this study …
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Democracy and Education: Is This Marriage on the Rocks?
… the eyes of historical authors-Thomas Jefferson, Horace Mann, John Dewey, Benjamin Barber-and contemporary educational policy documents-A Nation at Risk, Goals 2000. Comparisons were made first among the selected authors and then between the documents, followed by a comparison between the two …