Early Massachusetts law mandated schools for every fifty to one hundred households

Evidence

The 1642 Massachusetts School Law and the 1647 “Old Deluder Satan Law” — the foundational New England educational legislation — required every town of fifty households to maintain a reading school and every town of one hundred households to maintain a Latin grammar school. — , The Rod and the Child, 3115

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonial school codes formally codified caning as official state policy — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 4446; Massachusetts established public schooling in 1647 to counteract Satanic influence — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 477

Related

• Massachusetts established public schooling in 1647 to counteract Satanic influence (similarity 0.89)

Broader Connections

• Colonial school codes formally codified caning as official state policy #expands (0.55) — , The Rod and the Child, 4446