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Religious Schooling in America: An Historiographic Reflection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

F. Michael Perko
F. Michael Perko*
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Loyola University of Chicago
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History of Education Quarterly , Volume 40 , Issue 3 , Fall 2000 , pp. 320 - 338
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1 A notable exception here is Robert, D. Cross's “Origins of the Catholic Parochial Schools in America,” The American Benedictine Review 16 (1965), 194–209.Google Scholar

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5 Though “religious,” religiously-based,” and “parochial” do not mean precisely the same thing, they will be used interchangeably in this essay.Google Scholar

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