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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 ]
Education in the Thirteen Colonies during the 17th and 18th centuries varied considerably. Public school systems existed only in New England. In the 18th Century, the Puritan emphasis on literacy largely influenced the significantly higher literacy rate (70 percent of men) of the Thirteen Colonies, mainly New England, in comparison to Britain (40 percent of men) and France (29 percent of men).
Goodchild, Lester F., et al., eds. Higher Education in the American West: Regional History and State Contexts (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) Higgins, Andrew Stone. Higher Education For All: Racial Inequality, Cold War Liberalism, and the California Master Plan (The University of North Carolina Press, 2023) Jencks, Christopher, and David Riesman.
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 ...
History of Education Quarterly 36.1 (1996): 39–51. in JSTOR; Dabney, Charles William. Universal Education in the South - Volume One: From the Beginning to 1900 (U of North Carolina Press, 1936) online vol 1. Dabney, Charles William. Universal Education in the South - Volume Two: Since 1900 (1936); a standard scholarly history; not online
Universities in northern Europe were more willing to accept the ideas of Enlightenment and were often greatly influenced by them. For instance, the historical ensemble of the University of Tartu in Estonia, that was erected around that time, is now included in the European Heritage Label list as an example of a university in the Age of Enlightenment.
The period between 1701 and 1870 saw an expansion in access to formal education in Wales, though schooling was not yet universal. During the 18th century, various philanthropic efforts were made to provide education to poorer children and sometimes adults—schools established by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK), circulating schools, Sunday schools and endowed elementary ...
The History of Education: Educational Practice and Progress Considered as a Phase of the Development and Spread of Western Civilization (1920) online; Herbst, Jurgen. "NineteenthâCentury Schools between Community and State: The Cases of Prussia and the United States." History of Education Quarterly 42.3 (2002): 317–341.