Who was horace mann and what achievements did he make in the field of education reform?

He was a man who was president of Atinoch College and is often called the "Father of Education" He campaigned in Massachusetts for better education, established the Normal School for Teachers in 1839, established free libraries in school districts, the wages of teachers were more than doubled, supervision of teaching improved with compensated school committees, built fifty new secondary schools, State aid to education doubled, textbooks and educational equipment improved, edited the "Common School Journal", and wrote twelve Annual Reports