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The Image of Public Schools in Roman Catholic American History Textbooks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

Leo J. Alilunas
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In an interesting essay on religion and the American schools Robert Coughlan has made the observation that the rise of the nonsectarian public schools prepared the way for the development of a “vast, new, and profoundly sectarian school system—the parochial schools of American Catholics.” This movement was a consequence of the large immigration of Catholics, the prohibition of public support of sectarian schools in state constitutions, and the vigorous efforts of the Catholic hierarchy after the 1884 decree, which motivated the building of parochial schools.

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History of Education Quarterly , Volume 3 , Issue 3 , September 1963 , pp. 159 - 165
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Copyright © 1963, University of Pittsburgh Press 

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1. Coughlan, Robert, “Religion and the Schools,” Life (June 16, 1961), 116–117.Google Scholar

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21. The writer has found that only one textbook in a list of ten nonparochial school textbooks in American history has provided any substantial treatment. See Gavian and Hamm, op. cit., 801.Google Scholar

22. Scholastic Teacher, Vol. 81, No. 15 (Jan. 16, 1963), 1–T.Google Scholar

23. Phi Delta Kappan (January, 1962), 178.Google Scholar

24. Allen, Roy B. and Marshall, Robert, “‘Child Benefit’ Has Lost Its Glitter,” Phi Delta Kappan (November, 1962), 79. The effect of this decision is that Catholic schools in Oregon will have to spend $200,000 annually for the next five years to replace the textbooks which have previously been supplied by the state. The United States Supreme Court has refused to review the decision of the Oregon Supreme Court. “Oregon Ban on Free Texts for Church Schools Stands,” Church & State, Vol. 15, No. 11 (December, 1962), 3.Google Scholar