Show americanization PROBLEM americanization is a aliye liv is isue in many new york appreciates its ita significance and has hag already taken steps on a state basis to americanize the alien in 1910 there were 97 foreign born whites unable to speak english in that commonwealth mon wealth and who could not read or write in any language the new york state department of education has bearun the first statewide campaign to abolish these disabilities its program covered the fol lonz procedure a a careful survey of the immigrant education situation I 1 bation b establishment afi training to prep prepare ers for the instruction of for eigners oi amers c adoption oft ards ardson of efficiency in bubli even ing school work for adult im migrants d cooped with state and federal agai d e publication of stags we tins T As a preliminary persa and intensive tudy of certain communities dis disclose clos j fed cd dark spots of illiteracy and light spots in the large industrial centers where efforts were under way to teach the foreigner english and give him some contact with american standards and ideals A tenc teachers liers training institute for the preparation of te teachers athers of fore foreigners igner s was organized at albany I 1 in the fall of 1915 it was nas so successful that it was de continue it upon a permanent as a part of the regular curriculum of the new york state college for teachers similar institutes are planned for syracuse and new york city while training classes are in operation cr aaion at buffalo and rochester partly as a result of state encouragement cooperation with governmental and private agencies interested in educating and ameri can izing theelien the alien is already ari an established fact A statement issued by the new york state department part ment of education n shows that the bureau of education of the department of the interior the bureaus of immigration and naturalization of the department af the national americanization committee of new york city are among those whose services and material have been utilized speakers for in institutes utes have been furnished by some of these cooperating agen cies t two publications have already been issued by new york state a citizenship syllabus and the rochester plan of immigrant education several thousand of the former having been widely distributed in view of the ebb and flow of the immigrant tide as far as individual c communities muni ties are c concerned on for this foreign pop population u la largely follows the economic demands of the hour new york is properly approaching this problem from the state point of view it is hardly just to throw upon the community die entire burden of caring for this fluctuating alien group the empire state is thus setting an example which other of the so called immigration aaion states might well follow |