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This article centers directly on the impact of education in the Japanese internment camps during WWII. The end of the article also discusses the forward reaching impacts that some of those education programs have had on Japanese Americans.

"Along the way, the children and adolescents were forced to confront in one way or another more abstract notions of race, citizenship, and culture." This is really interesting, Stephen. Thanks for sharing. It's good to look at some of the shadier things our government has done sometimes.

"Just days after the attack, teenager Sato Hashizume, raised in Portland, Oregon, and who earlier had given little thought to the incident, was confronted by two teenagers as she was walking home from school: "Are you a Jap?," they asked. And she replied: "N-no . . . no, I-I'm not a Jap, I'm Japanese." To avoid future similar confrontations, Hashizume took the extreme measure of wearing the button, "I am A Loyal Chinese," though such a measure did not protect her from the internment and concomitantly the forced abandonment of her dog. Before the war "their lives between cultures were a matter of fact and not a matter of dissonance;" they lived in two worlds that they moved between seemingly at will, but now they knew this bicultural existence involved heavy costs." Wow.

"The 'Americanization' of the Japanese included an educational system for both children and adults."

This is a great interactive overview of Japanese internment camps during WWII. In the section on life in the camps there are stories and topics about how the children in these camps were educated.