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7 unusual facts about Horace Mann


Douglas Otto

Also he is on the national advisory board for Practical Parent Education and the Horace Mann League.

Jeffrey Roy

In 2010, he was elected as the Chairman of the Franklin Democratic Town Committee, co-chaired Franklin’s Anti-Bullying Task Force, served as a member of Franklin’s Horace Mann School Building Committee, and was the chairman of the Board of Directors for the non-profit Masque Theatre Co., Inc. in Milford, Massachusetts.

Pantheon, London

Writing to Sir Horace Mann in May 1770 Horace Walpole asked "What do you think of a winter Ranelagh erecting in Oxford Road, at the expense of sixty thousand pounds?".

Phonics

Despite the work of 19th-century proponents such as Rebecca Smith Pollard, some American educators, prominently Horace Mann, argued that phonics should not be taught at all.

Reading education in the United States

Educators, in particular Horace Mann, began to advocate changes in reading instructional methods.

Rousas John Rushdoony

He vigorously attacked progressive school reformers such as Horace Mann and John Dewey and argued for the dismantling of the state's influence in education in three works: Intellectual Schizophrenia (a general and concise study of education), The Messianic Character of American Education (a history and castigation of public education in the U.S.), and The Philosophy of the Christian Curriculum (a parent-oriented pedagogical statement).

Twice-Told Tales

She sent copies of the collection to William Wordsworth as well as to Horace Mann, hoping that Mann could get Hawthorne a job writing stories for schoolchildren.


Charles Fane, 2nd Viscount Fane

He was in Florence in person between 3 October 1734 and spring 1738; when Horace Walpole's later friend Horace Mann, his deputy, replaced him (as the Chargé d'Affairs).

William Ballantyne Hodgson

He contributed a preface and notes to Horace Mann's Report of an Educational Tour in Germany, &c., 1846; edited, with Henry James Slack, the memorial edition (1865, &c.) of the Works of William Johnson Fox; and translated Count Cavour's Thoughts on Ireland, &c.


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Alan Bernheimer

He attended Horace Mann School, and graduated in 1970 from Yale College, where he became friends with poets Steve Benson, Kit Robinson, Rodger Kamenetz, and Alex Smith and studied literature with A. Bartlett Giamatti and Harold Bloom and poetry with Ted Berrigan, Peter Schjeldahl, and Bill Berkson.

Andrew Levitas

Attending The Horace Mann School and then The Dalton School in Manhattan, NY, as well as exploring all the museums, ballets, and art New York had to offer, Andrew developed a keen interest for the arts.

Cleveland, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin

The main campus for Lakeshore Technical College is located in the village, while public school students are a part of the Sheboygan Area School District; the district maintains Cleveland Elementary School in the village, and those students usually attend Horace Mann Middle School and Sheboygan North High School in the city of Sheboygan later on if they have no school choice preference.