Public Education

- This reform movement focused on establishing free public schools for children of all classes

- Reformers motivated by the growing numbers of the uneducated poor

-a major reform movement that won widespread support was the effort to make education available to more children

- three basic principles- schools as hound be free and supported by taxes, teachers should be trained, and children are required to attend school.

Where?

It was much more common in the North North than the South because slavery militated against the emergence of manufacturing and urbanization, which were the two critical factors that led to educational reform in the North. Education in the south was primarily voluntary, parental, and religion related.