People wanted to make education more available to children for boys and girls of ALL races. The main guy involved in this is Horace Mann. He was lucky to even get to attend school. He saw that kids would destroy the property around them, such as setting fires. Mann wanted these children to have a chance in life and behave well.
When Mann became the supervisor of education in Massachusetts he told about how he wanted to create more public schools and how he thought people should pay taxes to buy schools. The schools before were crowded and the teachers didn’t have motivation to come to school because of little pay and they were uneducated. Mann convinced the people to pay taxes to build better schools, to pay teachers more, and to pay for the teachers to get more education.
Many states started to use Horace’s ideas. White kids especially boys went to a free public school. America didn’t offer education to everyone especially girls and African Americans. Many states voted to keep African Americans out of public schools. Few girls and African Americans attended school. As time went on, girls were accepted into schools more and more but there was still little opportunity for African Americans. Horace Mann wanted to do something about that so he became a president of a college for men and women of all races.
I believe this reform is very successful. According to http://www.jbhe.com/preview/winter07preview.html over the past 16 years black men have improved their graduation rate from 28 percent to 36 percent.
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