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Chapter 4, pp. 73-101
Spring states, “three distinctive aspects of the common school movement made it different from
past educational developments.” What were these? How are they manifested in public education
today?
What was the ideology of the common school movement? What competing ideas make up the
ideology?
Who was Horace Mann? What was the problem he was attempting to address?
What was the importance of the Twelfth Annual Report? According to Mann, what were the four
“destructive alternatives” to this form of nonsectarian moral education? How do they relate
today?
Spring states, “three distinctive aspects of the common school movement made it different from
past educational developments.” What were these? How are they manifested in public education
today?
What was the ideology of the common school movement? What competing ideas make up the
ideology?
Who was Horace Mann? What was the problem he was attempting to address?
What was the importance of the Twelfth Annual Report? According to Mann, what were the four
“destructive alternatives” to this form of nonsectarian moral education? How do they relate
today?
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