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History of Education Journal (1954): 105-117. He was Ohio's 'ex officio' State Superintendent of Common Schools from 1845 to 1850. online; Theobald, Paul. Call School: Rural Education in the Midwest to 1918 (1995); White, E. E. ,and T. W. Harvey, eds. A History of Education in the State of Ohio: A Centennial Volume (Columbus, 1876) online
The Oneida Institute of Science and Industry (founded 1827) was the first institution of higher education to routinely admit African-American men and provide mixed-race college-level education. [130] Oberlin College (founded 1833) was the first mainly white, degree-granting college to admit African-American students. [ 131 ]
Logan Co., Ohio, 1834. With Ohio's population reaching 45,000 in December 1801, Congress determined that the population was growing rapidly and Ohio could begin the path to statehood. The assumption was the territory would have in excess of the required 60,000 residents by the time it became a state.
Mass compulsory schooling started in Prussia by around 1800 to "produce more soldiers and more obedient citizens". After 1868 reformers set Japan on a rapid course of modernization, with a public education system like that of Western Europe. In Imperial Russia, according to the 1897 census, literate people made up 28 per cent of the population ...
Between 1880 and 1900, the urban population of the United States rose from 28% to 40%, and reached 50% by 1920, in part due to 9,000,000 European immigrants. After 1890 the US rural population began to plummet, as farmers were displaced by mechanization and forced to migrate to urban factory jobs.
Take this quiz to test your knowledge of Cincinnati history. This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: Rare photo collection shows life in 1800s Cincinnati
The Kingdom of Prussia introduced a modern public educational system designed to reach the entire population; it was widely copied across Europe and the United States in the 19th century. The basic foundations of the Prussian primary education system were laid out by Frederick the Great with his "Generallandschulreglement," a decree of 1763 ...
In 1800, Ohio’s human population was about 45,000. Today, it is approaching 12 million, an increase of 26,527%. This avalanche of humanity has wrought great changes in our natural resources.