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Equality and rugged individualism were important concepts
Monitorial schools: bright students taught their classmates
Common Schools: elementary; 3 R’s: Horace Mann-common school would be the great equalizer, a means of social mobility.
The Academy: offered college prep and a practical program
High School: Kalamazoo decision 1874; James Conant- comprehensive high school
