American Decades
"Schools for New Citizens"
Magazine article
By: Viola Paradise
Date: September 1941
Source: Paradise, Viola. "Schools for New Citizens." Survey Graphic 30, no. 9, September 1941, 469. Available online at http://newdeal.feri.org/survey/sg41469.htm; website home page: http://newdeal.feri.org (accessed February 28, 2003).
About the Author: Viola Paradise (1887–1980) was born in Chicago, Illinois, and educated at the University of Chicago and the New York School of Social Work. She wrote several novels and contributed numerous articles to the leading publications of her time, including the Pictorial Review, Harpers, Women's Home Companion, Scribner's, and The Dial. She died in New York.
Introduction
At the turn of the twentieth century, millions of immigrants entered America...
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1940's Education Primary Sources
- "Whither the American Indian?"
- Mary McLeod Bethune's Letter to Eleanor Roosevelt
- "Schools for New Citizens"
- "History DE-American History and Contemporary Civilization"
- "The Eight-Year Study"
- "Rupert, Idaho—Children Go to Swimming Classes in the School Bus"
- "America Was Schoolmasters"
- Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944
- Constitution of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO)
- Science, the Endless Frontier
- Higher Education for American Democracy: Vol. I, Establishing the Goals
- A Community School in a Spanish-Speaking Village
- Education in a Japanese American Internment Camp
- Chronicles of Faith: The Autobiography of Frederick D. Patterson
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
