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Education Reform Movement

Web Sites
Databases (search for early education reform or a key person)

Public Broadcasting Service
PBS Online: Only A Teacher: Schoolhouse Pioneers - Horace Mann
http://www.pbs.org/onlyateacher/horace.html

Student Reseach Center (EBSCO)

University of Notre Dame
Overview of Horace Mann, the “Father of American Education”
http://www.nd.edu/~rbarger/www7/mann.htm

Student Resource Center (GALE)

North Carolina State University
Summary of Horace Mann’s major educational reform accomplishments http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/agexed/aee501/mann.htm

Grolier Online
Public Broadcasting Service
Information on Horace Mann from a Public Television series http://www.pbs.org/kcet/publicschool/innovators/mann.html
Biography Resource Center (iCONN)

Connecticut’s Heritage Gateway
Information on Henry Barnard – an early education reformer in Connecticut and Rhode Island http://www.ctheritage.org/encyclopedia/ct1818_1865/barnard.htm

 
AP Study Notes
An overview of most of the reform movements
*** be sure to click on the forward and backward arrows at the bottom of this web page****
http://www.apstudynotes.org/us-history/topics/reform-crusades/
 
Key People
Horace Mann
Thomas Galludet
Henry Barnard
Emma Hart Willard
(1787-1870)