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BARNARD, HENRY (1811-1900)

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BARNARD, See also:HENRY (1811-1900) , See also:American educationalist, was See also:born in See also:Hartford, See also:Connecticut, on the 24th of See also:January 181 r. He graduated at Yale in 1830, and in 1835 was admitted to the Connecticut See also:bar. In 1837—1839 he was a member of the Connecticut legislature, effecting in 1838 the passage of a See also:bill, framed and introduced by himself, which provided for " the better supervision of the See also:common See also:schools " and established a See also:board of " commissioners of common schools " in the See also:state. Of this board he was the secretary from 1838 till its abolition in 1842, and during this See also:time worked indefatigably to reorganize and reform the common school See also:system of the state, thus earning a See also:national reputation as an educational reformer: In 1843 he was appointed by the See also:governor of Rhode See also:Island See also:agent to examine the public schools of the state, and recommended improvements; and his See also:work resulted in the reorganization of the school system two years later. From 1845 to 1849 he was the first See also:commissioner of public schools in the state, and his See also:administration was marked by a decided step in educational progress. Returning to Connecticut, he was, from 1851 to 1855, " See also:superintendent of common schools," and See also:principal of the State Normal School at New See also:Britain, See also:Conn. From 1859 to 1860 he was See also:chancellor of the University of See also:Wisconsin and agent of the board of regents of the normal school fund; in 1866 he was See also:president of St See also:John's See also:College, See also:Annapolis, See also:Maryland; and from 1867 to 1870 he was the first See also:United States commissioner of See also:education, and in this position he laid the See also:foundation for the subsequent useful work of the See also:Bureau of Education. His See also:chief service to the cause of education, however, was rendered as the editor, from 1855 to 1881, of the American See also:Journal of Education, the See also:thirty-one volumes of which are a veritable See also:encyclopaedia of education, one of the most valuable compendiums of See also:information on the subject ever brought together through the agency pf any one See also:man. He also edited from 1838 to 1842, and again from 1851 to 1854, the Connecticut Common School Jou~rnal, and from 1846 to 1849 the Journal of the Rhode Island Instretute of Instruction. He died at Hartford, Conn., on the 5th of See also:July 1900. Among American educational reformers, Barnard is entitled to See also:rank next to See also:Horace See also:Mann of See also:Massachusetts. See a See also:biographical See also:sketch by A.

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Mayo in the See also:Report of the Commissioner of Education for 1896—1897 (See also:Washington, 1898), and W. S. See also:Monroe's Educational Labours of Henry Barnard (See also:Syracuse, 1893).

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