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Emma Hart
Emma Hart Willard addressed her issues and concerns about educating women in higher education. She is an important figure in education history because in previous times girls was only educated for one to two years outside the home. Then girls were educated longer but focused on learning homemaking, reproduction, and being a wife. Willard believed women needed to be educated to extraordinary lengths and not limited to only being educated on how to be a good a wife and mother. -
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Horace Mann
Mann was an educational leading advocate for educating all social classes. He is important in history because education was limited to poor children and people. He is the reason for the Common School, which we refer to today as Elementary public schools. -
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Kalamazoo Michigan case in 1874
This case supported secondary education. This is important in educational history because it was inspired by the common schools and wanted to expand from that which resulted to continued education, or secondary education. This is vital because before this event, Elementary was the highest completion of public education, so with high school education, the educational system continued to expand. -
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Brown Vs. Board of Education
In this even was the claims of the "separate but equal" education, or schooling. The intension was to separate whites and blacks in the education system but provide the same quality of education. This event is significant in educational history because it proved that blacks were not getting the same quality of education or resources as the white students which led to revision in the education system. -
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Project Head Start
This was an act that was for the purposes of the population of the lower socio economic families and children, or people who were poor. This act provided social skills, nutritional, medical, and educational services to people and families of low SES. This is important in today's educational history because it allowed much needed resources to people who was less privileged. Since, this program continues to help the lower SES women, children, and families today and is still a resourceful program.