From Farm Fields to Classrooms: Horace Mann's War for Universal and Compulsory Education for Children

Published: June 7, 2018, 7:38 a.m.

In a remarkably short span of time, American children went from laboring on family farms to spending their days in classrooms. The change came from optimistic reformers like Horace Mann, who in the early 1800s dreamed of education, literacy, and...