History of Education

The Common School Movement was a broad campaign in the nineteenth-century United States to create free, tax-supported schools open to

American public school growth over roughly a century and a half turned a patchwork of local district schools into one

Horace Mann common schools became the model that many Americans pictured when they imagined free public education in the nineteenth

The Friedrich Froebel kindergarten began as an unusual idea in nineteenth-century Germany: that young children learn best through guided play

Pestalozzi educational methods grew out of a simple but radical conviction: every child, including the poorest, can learn when teaching

Prussian education reforms of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries created one of the first school systems run and supervised by

Any honest account of Indigenous education colonial era history begins long before the first European school was built on foreign

Early colonial schooling in North America took many forms during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, from reading lessons at a

Charter schools in England have a very different history from the American schools that share the name. In England, the

Protestant literacy promotion was the effort, beginning in the sixteenth century, to teach ordinary men, women and children to read