Editing Italian Americans (section)

===Education===
[[File:Logue House 1101 Milford.jpg|thumb|Italian Cultural and Community Center ([[Logue House]]) in the [[Houston Museum District]]]]
During the era of mass immigration, rural families in Italy did not place a high value on formal education since they needed their children to help with chores as soon as they were old enough. For many, this attitude did not change upon arriving in America, where children were expected to help support the family as soon as possible.<ref>{{cite book |last=Franco |first=J. Philip di |url=https://archive.org/details/italianamericans0000difr/page/37 |title=The Italian Americans |publisher=Chelsea House Publishers |year=1988 |isbn=0-87754-886-2 |edition=1. print. |location=New York |pages=[https://archive.org/details/italianamericans0000difr/page/37 37–38]}}</ref> This view toward education steadily changed with each successive generation.  The 1970 census revealed that those under age 45 had achieved a level of education comparable to the national average,<ref name="Vecoli 1978">Vecoli (1978)</ref> and within six decades of their peak immigration year, Italian Americans as a whole had equaled the national average in educational attainment.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Chavez |first=Linda |date=March 25, 2011 |title=Hispanic population booms |url=http://townhall.com/columnists/lindachavez/2011/03/25/hispanic_boom |newspaper=[[Florida Today]] |location=Melbourne, Florida |pages=9A}}</ref><!---hard copy and soft copy sources are different. They are the same article, however--> Presently, according to Census Bureau data, Italian Americans have an average high school graduation rate, and a higher rate of advanced degrees compared to the national average.<ref name="US Census Bureau, Italian">{{cite web |author=United States Census Bureau |title=US demographic census |url=http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/IPTable?_bm=y&-reg=ACS_2006_EST_G00_S0201:543;ACS_2006_EST_G00_S0201PR:543;ACS_2006_EST_G00_S0201T:543;ACS_2006_EST_G00_S0201TPR:543&-qr_name=ACS_2006_EST_G00_S0201&-qr_name=ACS_2006_EST_G00_S0201PR&-qr_name=ACS_2006_EST_G00_S0201T&-qr_name=ACS_2006_EST_G00_S0201TPR&-ds_name=ACS_2006_EST_G00_&-TABLE_NAMEX=&-ci_type=A&-redoLog=true&-charIterations=047&-geo_id=01000US&-geo_id=NBSP&-format=&-_lang=en |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200212043917/http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/IPTable?_bm=y&-reg=ACS_2006_EST_G00_S0201:543;ACS_2006_EST_G00_S0201PR:543;ACS_2006_EST_G00_S0201T:543;ACS_2006_EST_G00_S0201TPR:543&-qr_name=ACS_2006_EST_G00_S0201&-qr_name=ACS_2006_EST_G00_S0201PR&-qr_name=ACS_2006_EST_G00_S0201T&-qr_name=ACS_2006_EST_G00_S0201TPR&-ds_name=ACS_2006_EST_G00_&-TABLE_NAMEX=&-ci_type=A&-redoLog=true&-charIterations=047&-geo_id=01000US&-geo_id=NBSP&-format=&-_lang=en |archive-date=February 12, 2020 |access-date=April 15, 2008}}</ref> Italian Americans throughout the United States are well represented in a wide variety of occupations and professions, from skilled trades, to the arts, to engineering, science, mathematics, law, and medicine, and include a number of [[Nobel prize]] [[List of Nobel laureates|winners]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Nobel Prize Winners of Italian Descent |url=http://www.italiansrus.com/articles/nobelprizes.htm |access-date=September 3, 2010 |publisher=Italiansrus.com}}</ref>

There are two Italian international schools in the United States, [[La Scuola International]]<ref>{{Cite news |title=La Scuola, the only Italian Immersion School in San Francisco, receives recognition as the first and only Italian Accredited School on the west coast! |url=https://lascuolasanfrancisco.squarespace.com/blog/lascuolasanfranciscointernationalschool |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190110133749/https://lascuolasanfrancisco.squarespace.com/blog/lascuolasanfranciscointernationalschool |archive-date=January 10, 2019 |access-date=January 10, 2019 |website=La Scuola International School |language=en-US}}</ref> in San Francisco, and [[La Scuola d'Italia Guglielmo Marconi]] in New York City.<ref>"[http://www.lascuoladitalia.org/about-la-scuola/ About la scuola] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150623234736/http://www.lascuoladitalia.org/about-la-scuola/|date=2015-06-23}}." [[La Scuola d'Italia Guglielmo Marconi]]. Retrieved on May 2, 2015.</ref>