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first public school established in Boston by Benjamin Frankin
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The General Court of Massachusetts Bay decrees that every town should have an elementary school
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Thomas Jefferson proposes "two-track" educaion system
system would separate the "laboring" and the "learned" -
Northwest Ordinance
forms a structure for education in new U.S. lands -
Horace Mann born
A son of poor farmers, Franklin, Massachusetts -
petition in Boston calls for establishment of free public schooling
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First public high-school opens in Boston
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Massachusetts passes law to make public school open to all free of charge
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Mann Serves on Massachusetts House of Representatives
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Horace Mann serves in Massachusetts Senate
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Ohio's Oberlin College became the first college to accept women
Mann preached education for all -
Mann becomes head of Massachusetts State Board of Education
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Secretary of Education
Mann leaves law practice to pursue new position -
biweekly Common School Journal begins
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Horace Mann serves on U.S. House of Representatives
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Massachusetts passes first compulsory education law
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Death of Horace Mann
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Congress makes it illegal for Native Americans to go to school
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African Americans try to bring education to the South
