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    Final Exam Quynh Nguyen Azusa Pacific University Final Exam Significant individuals, executive emphases, legislative act, or court decisions to America’s education system: Horace Mann (1796- 1859) Horace Mann was one of the most influential reformers in the history of American education. He was responsible for the Common School Movement, which was to ensure that every child receive free basic education funded by local taxes. Growing up in poverty where there was lack of access to education

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    Horace Tapscott was a powerful pianist with avant-garde leanings and a father figure to several of Los Angeles based play jazz players. During the 1960’s, Tapscott saw the linked between politics and aesthetics; hence, it gave the Watt’s Riots a response by offering an affirmation5. Such was the power of Horace Tapscott’s music as it roamed the topography of African-American culture that it described the racism against a people in a brutal and unexpurgated way. But more than anything, more than the

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    literally been able to create black holes in a lab, but it never the less has failed the “modern” education system on a spectacular level time and time again. One of the biggest surprises in why this system is so “modern” is because its designer, Horace Mann, developed it in 1873 based similarly to factories built during the Industrial Revolution (Einsemann 259). While Mann was designing this system, he founded and edited The Common School Journal. Targeting the public schools and their issues

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    Microsoft, used to say, “Life is not fair. Get used to it.” He thinks everyone is unique and grows up in different environments, so some will have more advantage than other, but based on “From Report of the Massachusetts Board of Education, 1848,” Horace Mann, a Massachusetts legislature in 1827, he believed everyone should be equal, and education will be a tool to make it happen. Mann was born in poverty, but through the hard working, he contributed incredible ideas to education; however, his concept

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    college education, this shows why education is important. Many people have different views on education and how students should be taught. For example, Alexander Hamilton believed that only wealthy white men should be educated, on the other hand, Horace Mann thought that everyone should be given the opportunity for an education. Two more men who influenced schools were Mark Twain and Thomas Jefferson. Twain argued that education and schooling were separate ideas and education outside of the classroom

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    minority faces economics issues, segregations and discrimination. The black community created their own school providing education to their children and they still continuous advocate for themselves to nowadays. From my understanding according with Horace Mann a politician and educator, the black population was entitled to education however without the same resources as the white people; in other words the minority population suffer since then. In an urban school district the students suffer with

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    Tragedy In The Bathroom On November 16,2017 Horace Vebermockle was found in his bathroom by his wife, Minnie Verbermockle, she put a blanket over him as he lied unconscious on the floor. She then called the doctor. The doctor came to her house and said that he had died from a skull fracture. She told the doctor that she thought he slipped on a cake of soap. The evidence is insufficient to the statement that his wife told the doctor. In the image of the scene his body lies in front of the sink

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    that we do not grow without failure; that failure is what teaches us a new skill and how to then succeed. I was not familiar with the quote, “adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant,” by Horace, however I think this quote is true. To me, this means that when someone has some kind of disadvantage, that person can use the challenge to his advantage through self-reflection, determination, and hope. Every person faces an obstacle, usually many

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    Horace Mann is referred to as, “the Father of the modern school,” and rightly so.1 He is responsible for the public school system we know today. 1 While head of the State Board of Education, in Massachusetts, Mann made his mark on the United States of America. 1 He changed the education system and made history. 1 For the first time the populace recognized the need for a balanced education. 2 Everyone has value. Everyone deserves a fair chance to gain knowledge. 2 After all, “Knowledge is power.”

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    Horace Mann's 12th Report

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    Horace Mann’s Twelfth Report In his Twelfth Report, Horace Mann discusses reasons that public education is imperative in the success of a peaceful, prominent society. Mann maintains that education is a way to produce successful and resourceful citizens. Without education, people can only do so much and can only go so far; they are raw materials that need to be developed into something more. Mann lists all of the important and necessary institutions in society that require educated people in

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