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Pennsylvania Educator Burrows Shaped State Schools
Thomas A. W Burrowes a Pennsylvania lawyer and Secretary of the Commonwealth, born Strasburg 1805, led school reform and drafted the Normal School Law in 1847. He helped establish the Pennsylvania School Journal and advocated a separate State Department of Education amid the Buckshot War.
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