Week 4 Discussion: Continue Your Discussion
For this discussion, share your thoughts about the Progressive Era, its successes and failures, and the impacts of this era on today’s social policy and social work practice.
Here are some ideas to get you started:
- Discuss the contributions of Ida Wells and Jane Addams to social welfare.
- Examine a success or failure of the social policies and practices of the Progressive Era and explain how it still has an impact today.
- What were some of the main contributing factors that led to the end of the Progressive Era?
- Reflect on what, if any, evidence there was of considerations that would today be related to diversity, equity, and inclusion and how that might be impacting current social work policies and practices.
Guidelines
- Your writing: Each post should show courtesy and be succinct, professional, well written, and organized, using proper writing mechanics, grammar, and punctuation.