Education of Asian

Education
Americans of
•
•
Occurred mid-1850’s
Recruited as cheap labor to
Minorities.
•
work in minds and railroads
of the west
Experienced discrimination
First half
•
in schools
Tape v. Hurley (1885)
of the
section.
• Special Language needs of
students was largely ignored
• Reluctant to employ Asian
American teachers or staff
• Following WW1 segregation • Education of Native
started to make parents fight Americans
harder for their kids to be • Treaties and Mission
put in high schools Schools
Elementary still remained
•
• Boarding Schools
highly segregated
• Following WW2 Chinese
• Reservation Day
Schools and Public
Education of Minorities. First half

moved out of segregated

Schools
neighborhoods and into
•
Created by Sarah Norton
integrated ones, including The Meriam Report
schools • Education of Hispanic
• Lau v, Nichols (1974) Americans
of the section.

• Education of Asian
Americans
 Education of Native
Education of Hispanic
Americans
• Was distrust and rejected from colonist.
They were initiated by missionaries who
equated education with Christianity and
the virtues of civilized life. However,
education was very limited to Native
Americans
Treaties and Mission
Schools
• In return for relinquishing Native
Americans land, they were given money
payments, guarantees of the integrity of
the land they retained, and promises of
educational services.
• Education had a negative affect
The Meriam Report
• 1928, the report granted US Citizenship
and appalling living conditions and
reprehensible treatment of Native
Americans.
Education of
Minorities
• Began after Mexican-
The process of education was limited to the
American war in 1848 minorities. To many, the schoolhouse doors
• Life became marked by was closed and the promise of equal
educational opportunity an unrealized
discrimination, prejudice,
dream
and segregation
• Promoted assimilation Boarding Schools
and deculturation
Assimilation – To remove Native
• Often left in poverty •
American children from their tribal
ridden barrios and were setting and subject them in a strict
sometimes sent to disciplinary setting, hoping to change
them into an “American”
internment camps
• Didn’t allow in American • First Boarding School was established in
1879 at Carlisle Pennsylvania, by
schools based on race
General Richard Pratt
• Led to the De Jure
Segregation
• However, despite these Reservation Day Schools
and other court victories, and Public Schools
the desegregation of
Hispanic children was far • BIA – Bureau of Indian Affairs
from being achieved and • On reservation days they offered several
advantages for learning but not limited
equality of opportunity an
to assimilation
unrealized dream
• Public schools were located on
reservation land