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This chapter examines the perennialist tradition behind Horace Mann and the Common School Movement. It details the rise of normal schools and the development of a common pedagogy and curriculum. It questions exactly how common was common in the public schools, opening up questions regarding the treatment of historically marginalized populations. It concludes with a discussion on the educational legacies of this period and recommendations for further reading.
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Horace Mann, “Introduction”, Common School Journal 3, no. 1 (January 1841), 15.
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William H. McGuffey, The Eclectic Second Reader (Cincinnati: Truman and Smith, 1836), 4–5.
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James Carper and Thomas C. Hunt, The Dissenting Tradition in American Education (New York: Peter Lang, 2007).
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Lawrence Cremin, Republic and the School: Horace Mann on the Education of Free Man (New York: Teacher’s College Press, 1957).
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W.E.B. Dubois, The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches (New York: Dover Books, 1994).
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Charles Glenn, The Myth of the Common School (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1988).
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Colin Greer, The Great School Legend: A Revisionist Interpretation of American Public Education (New York: Basic Books, 1972).
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Floyd P. Jorgenson, “The American Faith in Education.” History of Education Journal 4, no. 1 (1952), 11–17.
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Carl Kaestle, Pillars of the Republic: Common Schools and American Society 1780–1860 (New York: Hill and Wang, 1983).
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Christine A. Ogren, The American State Normal School: “An Instrument of Great Good” (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).
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David Roediger, Working Toward Whiteness: How America’s Immigrants Became White, The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs (New York: Basic Books, 2006).
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Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery: An Autobiography (New York: Dover Books, 1995).
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Janak, E. (2019). Education in the Common School Period (ca. 1830s–1860s). In: A Brief History of Schooling in the United States . The Cultural and Social Foundations of Education. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24397-5_3
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