Domestic News May 30, 1835

The Liberator

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New Jersey Education, Illiteracy Report, 1828 Statistics, Committee Findings

Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts

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A 1828 committee report on education in New Jersey showed that out of 300,000 population, 15,000 adults could not read and 12,000 children lacked educational means, a melancholy fact for a state with strong intellectual resources and notable institutions.

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Learning in New-Jersey. From a late report of a Committee appointed to ascertain the erudition of the State of New-Jersey, it appears that out of a population of 300,000 in the year 1828, there were 15,000 adults unable to read, and 12,000 children who are entirely destitute of the means of education. This is certainly a melancholy exhibition for a State like New-Jersey-a State equal to any of her sisters in all the elements of intelligence, and in all the facilities for promoting a universal education, and a State, too, that can boast of an institution which has afforded the means of education to so many of the first men in the United States, and which counts among her own sons, some of the most accomplished scholars, orators and statesmen in the country.—N. York Courier and Enquirer.

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Education

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New Jersey Education Illiteracy Report 1828 Statistics Committee Findings

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State Of New Jersey

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Primary Location

State Of New Jersey

Event Date

Year 1828

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15,000 adults unable to read; 12,000 children destitute of educational means

Event Details

Committee report ascertains erudition, revealing statistics on illiteracy and lack of education in a population of 300,000; described as melancholy for a state with strong intelligence elements and educational facilities, boasting institutions that educated prominent figures.