Social Issues, Urbanization

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Social Issues, Urbanization Education

• Nick Weir,
• Rob Gaines,
• Tyler DeBussey,
• Sarah Blackburn,
• Monica Vaughn-Flam

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Education

• William Torrey Harris
• Methods of Teaching
• School Attendance
• Illiteracy and Reading

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Education

• Generally Higher Educated People
• Mandatory and New Schools
• General Population

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John Dewey's Educational Theory

• Learn skills through experience People lacked
  skills
• Revolutionary ideas
• Every great advance in science has issued from a
  new audacity of imagination

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Education and Dewey

• Schools need reform
• Conservative moralists against reform
• Dewey for reform
• Agricultural / Industrial education
• Skilled workers

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City Life

• Health Problems
• Reforms
• Transportation Mass Transits
• New Communities Suburbs

How the Other Half Lives By JACOB A. RIIS
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City Life

• Need of Reform Licensed Physicians, more
  sanitary conditions
• Reform Necessary People are dying because of
  misdiagnosis's
• Biggest Offenders Unlicensed physicians and
  Pharmacists
• Biggest Supporters Gulick Luther Halsey
• Proposals City Commissioner plan
• Benefits Healthier lifestyles

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Housing

• Ghettos
• Lifestyle
• Businessmen
• African
• Urbanization

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Settlement Houses

• Female Dominant
• Undertook Community Service
• Lobbied Governments
• 400 Nationwide

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Settlement Houses

• Need of Reform Child-care, health care,
  education
• Reform Necessary
• Biggest Offenders Those who did not want to see
  women take political action
• Biggest Supporters Jane Addams, middle-class
  women
• Proposals To various state, local and national
  governments.
• Benefits Education to more people, health care
  provided

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