Girls were taught sewing in the primary grades of Boston schools. Boston established its first public high school.

 

Emma Willard established Troy Female Seminary in Troy, New York. Curriculum foci on domestic and household duties.

The Gardiner Lyceum was established in Gardiner, Maine. The manual labor school was the earliest one to employ applied principles of math and science.

Rensselaer School established in Troy, New York.

An experimental school was established by Robert Owns & William McClure as part of the New Harmony Society. The school included an infant school, elementary school and a secondary school for youth over the age of 12. Pestallozian ideas were adopted including the concepts of manual labor schools.