# Common School Movement
**Domain:** American Education / State Formation
**Doc Type:** Movement Node
**Maturity:** Developing
**Related:** [[Horace Mann]], [[Calvin Stowe]], [[Normal School]], [[Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks]]
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## Definition
The nineteenth-century U.S. movement for publicly supported, broadly accessible and standardized elementary education.
## Kybernetiks Context
Its reformers adapted European administrative models into American state systems and teacher-training institutions.
## Backlinks
[[Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks]] · [[articles/Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks|Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks]]