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The people who set the shape
Mann, Dewey, Montessori, and the Coleman Report.
Founders
The common school was an argument about who pays
Horace Mann's case for tax-supported common schooling set the funding principle the system still runs on.
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Dewey's school was a laboratory, and it was literal
John Dewey ran an actual laboratory school, and the theory came out of the practice rather than the reverse.
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A 1966 report found the thing nobody commissioned it to find
The Coleman Report concluded that family background predicted attainment more strongly than school resources, and the argument has not closed since.
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- The common school was an argument about who paysHorace Mann's case for tax-supported common schooling set the funding principle the system still runs on.
- Dewey's school was a laboratory, and it was literalJohn Dewey ran an actual laboratory school, and the theory came out of the practice rather than the reverse.
- A 1966 report found the thing nobody commissioned it to findThe Coleman Report concluded that family background predicted attainment more strongly than school resources, and the argument has not closed since.