COLECCION PUERTORRIQUEÑA
the pueRto ricao stuóy THE EDUCATION AND ADJUSTMENT OF PUERTO RICANS IN NEW YORK CUY
Sponsored by the Board of Educafion of the Cíty of New York ünder a grant-in-aid from The Fund fcr the Advancement of Educatlon 39 Easf 85ih Street, New York 28, N. Y. Tel. LEhígh 5-3320
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J. CAYCE MORRISON, Director
A Letter to Fríends of Puerto Pican Children ^itjiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii.iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiH
October 1, 1955
Dear Supervisors and Teachers:
I The Puerto Rican Study I
We, the Puerto Rican Study staff, are asked, "What have yon leamed that will tvas initiated October 1953 | be useful to teachers and supervisors?" The question is pertínent. As you open and developed through the j a new school year, as you face pupils cooperation of nine puhlic | new to our schools, we hope you may
I I I schools serving as experi- ¡ I
mental centers. It is
find our answers useful.
First of all, we have learned of the
difflculties that confronted teachers and noto |
supervisors ín trying ta serve the needs heing extended into other | of the rapid immigration of Puerto Rican pupils. We have observed your paschools, in arder to profit | tience, your persistence, the rich creafrom their experience and i tivity of your varied effort to serve well
I I j these newcomers in our schools. You j to obtain a loider revieiv of j crea.tec].a perfect settíng.for the kind of study to which we are committed. j the tentative findings befare | Secondiy, we have learned something I theij are crijstallized into | of the infinite complexity of the probI propasáis for action.
cess or failure may start a succession of events not fuUy known ñor understood by those who follow. Because of thís complexity, we write you ín due humility. But also, we write you in confidence, not that we have final answers to your questions, but confidence that in thinking and working together we may develop a program that will serve the needs of all the children of this city. As you will see, our confidence is rooted in the
cordial, critical, searching cooperation we have received from the teachers and
supervisors of nine schools that have worked with us during the past year. We ask you to examine our propositíons, to discuss them in your facult\' - meeting.s, to read the available repcrts from which they have beeu derived, and where feasible to test them in your work. In this letter, we can report little of leins confrontíng you. We have learned the evidence, little of the logic back of that what works in one school may not these propositions. That will come later work in another; that a practice may in various reports.^Some detail you will bring results in one classroom and prove 'fill in from your own study, obserx'aa dud in the next; that a particular suc- tion and experience.
Puerto Rican children await school opening in San Juan
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