Monthly Archives: April 2011
education reform…helpless?
With the recent departure of the New York City schools chancellor, Cathleen P. Black, it was apparent from the beginning that schools are in a huge need for reform. even the reception that greeted Ms. Black was not solemn but almost taken … Continue reading
Want to know what’s really going on……get a newspaper
The way of getting information for many years prior to the revolution and after was local newspaper. Many politician used the newspaper as a way of transforming their message during a campaign. But after the invention of the stream press … Continue reading
Reforms for the Working Class
The late 19th to the early 20th centuries saw a series of beneficial reforms by lawmakers for the working class. According to Chudacoff, Union rights to ‘organize, bargain, and strike’ were advocated by rising democratic leaders (p172) and they fought … Continue reading
educational reform
In the late 19th century, where education system had lacked the correct political reform. School were not organized, disorganized and overcrowded. Different laws were passed in the 1870’s and 1880’s, for example school attendance law. By the 1910, expectations for education were … Continue reading
” Hey! Did you Subscribe to the Local Newspaper? “
The reformation of social and physical environment after the revolution, in Chudacoff’s publication, was worked towards from several perspectives. This was done in order to make the citizens more aware of conditions of their environment, which would then help them to … Continue reading
Make Big Plans-Aim High & Hope
The motto of Daniel Burnham was “Make no little plans; make big plans…aim high and hope.” As a prominent architect during the early 1900s his mission along with the City Beautiful movements were to transform the cities from a disparaged … Continue reading
Attraction
Within the reading of Chudacoff he discusses how the publishers of newspapers and magazines try to attract readers by “exposing the scandals and injustices of contemporary society” (Chudacoff 154). When I was reading about it I thought that the idea … Continue reading
Beautify the City
While there was social reform during the late 1800s and the early 1900s, there was also the a group of reformers that set their works on beautifying the city, making it a better place for the citizens. For example, they … Continue reading
religious and moral reform….
In the late 1800’s Protestant groups consisting of older men reformed their religious mission due to the social crisis and labor struggles that were occuring. There was a Social Gospel that portrayed the human aspects of Christianity. As said in … Continue reading
We Believe in Education
One of Chudacoff’s biggest points was the educational reform that took place in the late 1800s. Chuadacoff believed that education could be the key to instilling urban masses with reformers standards of citizenship and democracy. Between 1870 and 1910 public school enrollments … Continue reading