Horace Mann's Troubling Legacy

A righteous reformer committed to the power of education, Horace Mann became a national figure by championing the common school movement. This new look at his work and thought shows that Mann’s ideas on civic education have had a lasting impact on the way that we still think today about education and its relation to our civic life. It reassesses Mann’s philosophy of civic education and deeply resonates with today’s pervasive and highly political debates about the role of education.