Educational Reform Movement In The 1800s

Educational Reform Movement In the early 1800s education in American wasn 't the best. Most schools were small and only went for 6 weeks because the children worked on their family farms. Other, more wealthy, children would have a tutor in their homes or they would be sent to a private school. The children that did go to school would sit in a one room building with 60 other children. The teachers also didn 't have much training and has limited knowledge to teach the children. They also received very little pay. The children that didn 't go to school would steal, and destroy property, and set fires. The schools children went to had little funding and taxes didn 't go to the schools. There were even places that didn 't have schools and the children didn 't learn anything but how to work on the farm. Very few people could read and even fewer could write. The People of the Educational Reform believed that it would help those children escape poverty and become good citizens. The desire to reform and expand education pushed many of the political and social and economic party’s toward trying to reform education. At the
Most high school and colleges did admit females. When there were schools for African Americans they were different than the places of education for white Americans. The school that the African Americans went to often received less funding from the government. Some people of the reform movement focused on teaching people with disabilities. Thomas Galludet developed a method to education people who were hearing impaired and opened the Hartford School for the Deaf in Connecticut in 1817. Dr. Samuel Howe advanced the cause of those who were visually impaired by developing books with large raised letters that people with sigh impairments could "read" with their fingers. Howe was the head of the Perkins Institute, a school for the blind, in