First Factory School For the Purpose of Eliminating Illiteracy Among Immigrant Women


 

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