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history of Catholic education  

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  • The first Catholic schools were founded in the early seventeenth century in what are now the states of Florida and Louisiana, predating the schools of Puritan Massachusetts. Beset by conflicts with public officials and anti-immigrant nativist forces, to say nothing of internal disputes, Catholic education nevertheless prevailed. [Source: Encyclopedia ofthe Social and Cultural Foundations of Education; Catholic Education, History of]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-PX005QFH-T

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