The teachers reported, with an enthusiasm that may, perhaps, have warped their judgments a little, that, wherever the attendance was regular, the progress was as rapid as the average progress of white children in the Northern public schools.
Reid reports on the enthusiastic claims of teachers regarding the educational progress of black children compared to white children.
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