ASSIGNMENT 1
The Common School Era Instructions According to what I read the common school was established in the middle of the 1800s to give all white children access to free public education. These schools, which were supported by local property taxes, were a dramatic departure from the unequal and commercialized educational system of the colonial era. America's educational system in the eighteenth century was primarily run by families and religious organizations, with the odd short-term school supported by municipalities. Nonetheless, this system continued inequalities based on gender, ethnicity, and family income. After decades of discussion leading up to the Civil War, the common school movement aimed to rectify these disparities and establish a more organized, publicly overseen educational system. The idea that an educated populace would be essential to the fledgling republic's survival greatly impacted the tenets of the common school movement. Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Rush,