Common School Journal, Volumes 1-2

Book excerpt: This collection includes the first two volumes of Horace Mann and William Bentley Fowle's influential Common School Journal, which advocated for improvements in public education in the United States during the mid-19th century. Featuring essays, reports, and other educational materials, these volumes offer a compelling glimpse into the state of American schooling at the time and the efforts to make it better. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.