Mann's Educational Reforms And The Progressive Movement

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Two factors which have impacted the evolution of American education are the Mann's educational reforms and the Progressive Movement in the early twentieth century. Both the Mann's educational reforms and the Progressive Movement radically changed the colonial system of school education. The essence of the Mann's reform was that unlike the old common schools that "were typically one-roomed schools attended by children ages six to fourteen", according to the article "Education in America" in his model schools " ...students were grouped by age, and passed together from one grade to the next. Classes would be lecture-style. Teachers were given more responsibility, as they had to teach a topic almost exclusively by talking about it." On the