... transcendentalism, social utopias, or abolition. Education – Primary and Secondary.
 Even though America had the highest literacy rate in the world in the early 1800's, the country had no statewide system of free, public elementary schools. In the Antebellum Period, only two states, Massachusetts and Vermont, had ... "natural," role was to care and nurture children. Furthermore, Emma Willard held seminars in the North that trained female teachers in math, physics, history, and geography. Horace Mann employed a crusade style to correct the education system in America. Mann used publ...

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... increase the labor pool for IT (Skinner, 2000, p. 52-5). The National IT Workforce Convocation, the federal government, and academia held the first National Information Technology Workforce convention January 2000. Leadership from Information Technology Association of America, the U. S. Commerce, and U. S. Department of Education ... and reiterated the need for public/private partnerships to address the issue. Reports from task forces described the effects of poor math and science competencies among students, the "nerd- image often associated with IT jobs, groups not well represented in t...

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