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In 1852, Massachusetts became the primary state to make formal schooling necessary for all youngsters, adopted a yr later by New York. In 1918, Mississippi grew to become the final state in America to pass compulsory education legal guidelines. Like the “New England Primer” within the seventeenth century and Webster’s tutorial masterpiece within the 18th century, the “McGuffey Readers” outlined American education in the 19th century. Scots-Irish Ohio trainer William Holmes McGuffey’s readers sold greater than a hundred and twenty million copies between 1836 and 1960 and continued to promote tens of thousands of copies per year after that.
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