Word: ganado
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with his own money, Tijerina launched two tuition-free "Little Schools of 400" in the neighboring towns of Ganado and Edna near Houston. Purpose: to teach 400 words of basic English to 42 five-year-olds, all of whom spoke Spanish only. After 3½ months the "graduates" entered first grade in the town's public schools-where more than half the Mexican-American first-graders had failed the year before-and all passed with flying colors...