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Implementation and Administration of Radical Education in Texas: Politics or Reform in Education from 1870-1873

This study examines the efforts of Radicals (Republicans) to establish a state-wide public school system in Texas between 1870 and 1873. Primary sources cover the chronological fringes of the period being examined. This study follows a chronological narrative with the four chapters examining first, educational trends in the southern states and Texas prior to Reconstruction, followed by examination of the Radical system in Texas, and, finally, its destruction by Conservative Texans. The final chapter focuses on immediate and long range results of Radical education. In examining the Radical educational program, an attempt has been made to dispel ideas popularly held by present-day Texans who believe that the Radical school program was simply another "carpetbagger" scheme for raiding the state treasury and building Radical patronage. This paper contends that the Radicals established as good a public school system as could be created at the time, and that it was administered in an honest and efficient manner. The system was destroyed by politicians and a grass roots revolt of taxpayers who had no faith in its methods, goals, or administrators.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc331063
Date08 1900
CreatorsMcClellan, Michael E.
ContributorsBlack, Watt L., Vaughan, William P., Sunderman, Harold C., Campbell, Lloyd P.
PublisherNorth Texas State University
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Formatiii, 111 leaves : ill., Text
CoverageUnited States - Texas, 1870/1873
RightsPublic, McClellan, Michael E., Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

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