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Birth
Horace Mann was born in Franklin, MA. -
Outline Published
Published Outline for an Institute for the Education of Teachers. This was about the necessity of teacher training. -
Common School Movement Began
Horace Mann became secretary of MA Board of Education and began pushing for a tax-funded, well-developed public school system. -
BiWeekly Journal
Founded a biweekly journal for teachers to reshape the way public school was perceived around the nation. -
Bureaucracy
He publicized an idea of a central bureaucracy in the states for primary and secondary education. -
Mr. President
He resigned and became the President of a new college in Yellow Springs called Antioch College. -
Death
Horace Mann died in Yellow Springs, OH.