-Major reform movement to try and make education available to more kids

-Led by Horace Mann

-Chance for children to escape poverty and grow into a good citizen

-Many citizens agreed and supported these ideas

-Many states in the North and West began following Mann's ideas in the 1850's

-Many voted that they would pay taxes to better education for teachers and raise their salaries

-Education for women did make slight process as it did for African Americans but they had to go to separate schools

-Teaching people with disabilities were main focuses of some reformers

Education Reform