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Shifting Landscapes, Changing Assumptions Reshape Higher Ed
by Philip DiSalvio
June 11, 2012
In 1852, Massachusetts became the first state to provide all its citizens access to a free public education. Over the next 66 years, every other state made the same guarantee. Based on a factory-model classroom and inspired in part by the approach Horace Mann saw in Prussia in 1843, it seemed to adequately prepare American ...
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