To Get a Better School System: One Hundred Years of Education Reform in Texas

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To Get a Better School System One Hundred Years of Education Reform in Texas Gene B. Preuss Texas A&M University Press College Station Copyright © 2009 by Gene B. Preuss Manufactured in the United States of America All rights reserved First edition This paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992 (Permanence of Paper). Binding materials have been chosen for durability. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Preuss, Gene B., 1966– To get a better school system : one hundred years of education reform in Texas / Gene B. Preuss. — 1st ed. p. cm. — (Centennial series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University ; no. 111) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-1-60344-111-7 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN-10: 1-60344-111-5 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Educational change—Texas—History. 2. Education and state—Texas— History. 3. Minorities—Education—Texas—History. 4. Education, Rural— Texas—History. 5. Gilmer-Aikin laws, 1949. I. Title. II. Series: Centennial series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University ; no. 111. LA370.P74 2009 379.764’0904—dc22 2008050656 Frontis and p. xii: Children in a schollroom in San Augustine, 1943. Courtesy Library of Congress For Eugene & Isabel, and Mari ...