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First Education Laws: Massachusetts
1642: Selectmen were ordered to ensure parents or masters were providing education to their students or apprentices, and if they weren't, the students were assigned to someone else to educate them.
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Horace Mann: the Father of the Common School
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John Dewey
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Post-Civil War Education
