To commemorate America’s 250th anniversary, <a href="https://www.aei.org/tag/the-report-card-podcast/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Report Card</a> will be releasing a few episodes on the history of American education—both to discuss how we arrived at the education system we have today and how our education system has shaped America.On this episode, <a href="https://www.aei.org/profile/nathaniel-n-malkus/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Nat Malkus</a> and <a href="https://johannneem.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Johann Neem</a> cover the period between the American Revolution and the Civil War. Nat and Johann discuss civics education in early America, why some educators cared so much about imagination and self-culture, Horace Mann, pushback against education reformers, the difficulties of schooling in the young republic, the spread of the common schools movement, and more.Johann Neem is Professor of History at Western Washington University, editor of the Journal of the Early Republic, and the author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Democracys-Schools-Public-Education-America/dp/1421423219" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Democracy’s Schools: The Rise of Public Education in America</a>.

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