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A Southern Progressive: M. A. Cassidy And The Lexington Schools, 1886-1928, Richard E. Day
A Southern Progressive: M. A. Cassidy And The Lexington Schools, 1886-1928, Richard E. Day
Richard E. Day
The 42-year career of M. A. Cassidy exemplifies the transition of public school leadership in Kentucky from non-educators who held religious-political ideologies to professional progressive educators who sought to make Kentucky schools more efficient through expertise and scientific management. This concept was fully adopted in Section 183 of the Kentucky Constitution (1891) which required the General Assembly to “provide for an efficient system of common schools throughout the state.” Confident that professional educators were best suited to devise solutions to social problems, and justified by the twin notions of equality of educational opportunity and meritocracy, Cassidy was part of a …