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Publication Date: August 1914
Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America
Author(s): Claribel G. Hill
Research Area: Education; Population and demographics
Keywords: Education; Immigration; Employment
Type: Other
Coverage: United States
Abstract:
The author describes the school for immigrant girls conducted in a factory. The girls were paid their average earning while attending school for almost four hours a week for forty weeks, with teaching personalized according to the needs and positions of the girls. All received certificates of literacy, and their efficiency of work was shown to have increased 15%.
Bulletin of the National Conference of Jewish Charities, 5:1