In this chapter it talked about public schools and how they started. I thought that this part was really interesting. Schools used to be really small and students ranging from 4 to 20 years old we're jammed into one small class room. In 1837 Horace Mann tried to better education. He goals were to shift financial support for schools to state, making the school year longer, having standardized text books, and dividing students into different grades depending on their age and education level. All these things that Mann had instituted into schools is still in effect today. Also even back then majority of teachers were women and I think today as well their are more women teachers than men. The schools wanted to integrate all people living in America and create a more diverse society but schools still excluded African Americans and if an African American entered the school people often acted violent towards them.
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