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"This year’s Horace Mann Upstander — honored for asking young readers to stand up for the people and places they can’t leave behind."

"This is the story of a book award – one designed to encourage young readers to be activists and to engage their rights. While the first award was given in 2007, the real story begins many years ago. Imagine a cold snowy day in Massachusetts as you saddle up your horse and prepare to ride to yet another one room schoolhouse."

"The year is 1837 and the rider is Horace Mann, who is credited as the father of American public education. Appointed Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education, Horace Mann immediately began to visit many schools to learn what an American education really looked like across our young nation. What he found would not surprise you: schools were uneven, they lacked funding, the teachers were underpaid, and many children did not attend school at all."

"Horace Mann believed that excellent “common,” what we now call public schools, had to be available to everyone if we as a nation ever hoped to realize the democratic ideals upon which our country was founded. These “common” schools should prepare citizens to be engaged in society, contributing to its well-being through active democratic participation. In other words, public education was a prerequisite for a just society. Mann was very successful in creating an excellent school system in Massachusetts, which was later used as a model to influence the establishment of a system of education throughout the country (Hays, 2007)."

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