Name at least 2 countries from the reading that constituted “new immigration”
What is Russia, Poland, Italy
100
Why was Gary, Indiana such a “hot-spot” for immigration?
What is The nearby steel industry
100
What track did 2/3 of Mexican Americans in LA push toward in the 1930s?
What is the vocational track
100
Why was Life Adjustment Education so groundbreaking?
What is it was relevant to the life of a teenager.
200
True or False? The immigrants coming to the US were seen as a new, strong, productive people, and were warmly accepted.
What is False. Seen as undesirable, criminal, and illiterate.
200
What was the title given to William Wirt’s new system of schooling?
What is The Work-Study-Play system
200
What type of school did many Native Americans attend with a focus on industrial training?
What is boarding school
200
Name one subject covered in Life Adjustment Education
What is family life, health, or hygiene
300
Why did immigrants desire education?
What is They saw it as a means to a better life.
300
Fill in the blanks- “The goal of this manual training,..was to make every _____ ___ a ______ and every ______ a _______ ____.”
What is Working man, scholar, scholar, working man
300
What culture was emphasized in Native American boarding schools?
What is Anglo-Saxon
300
What office created Life Adjustment Education?
What is the U.S. Office of Education
400
What was a major goal of schools when it came to teaching immigrants?
What is To teach them how to be American
400
What was the main concern with the Gary Plan when it was implemented in New York?
What is That is was just a “plot to turn out cheap labor for large corporations”
400
What types of things did African-American students learn in school? Be specific to each gender.
What is domestic activities for girls and manual labor for the boys
400
True or False: Life Adjustment Education was highly criticized?
What is True
500
What fraction of students in New York City and Chicago, in the early 20th Century had foreign born fathers?
What is 2/3
500
After the removal of the Gary Plan from the New York school system, and more traditional methods were reinstated , what remained as a large concern of the schools in the education of immigrants?
What is Socializing them. They wanted to “Americanize” the immigrant children.
500
True or False: Educational curricula was used to reinforce prejudices based on class, gender, and race.
What is true
500
What type of teaching tool did Life Adjustment Education use a lot of?