Contributions of Catholic Religious Orders to Public Education in New Mexico Since the American Occupation

Author

Frederick Mason Bacon

Publication Date

3-11-1947

Abstract

This study is intended (1) to explain how it came to pass that religious orders have been conducting public schools in New Mexico, (2) to reveal the outcome of controversies or litigation involving claims of illegality in the practice, and (3) to present the contributions of Catholic religious orders to public education in New Mexico since the American occupation by offering a brief history of the public schools which they have conducted.

Keywords

New Mexico, Education, Fransciscan Missionaries, Catholicism

Document Type

Thesis

Language

English

Level of Degree

Masters

Department Name

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy

First Committee Member (Chair)

Everett Hays Fixley

Second Committee Member

John William Diefendorf

Third Committee Member

Robert Arthur Moyers

Recommended Citation

Bacon, Frederick Mason. "Contributions of Catholic Religious Orders to Public Education in New Mexico Since the American Occupation." (1947). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/educ_teelp_etds/58