Contribution to EducationPublished under the direction of George Peabody College for Teachers., 1920 |
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Página 1 - ... they may at the outset expect to do but one or a few years of the work. But the fact that approximately 88 per cent do not complete a course indicates that most of those who thought it worth while to enter the high school, for some or many reasons do not find it possible or perhaps not worth while to follow out the course, even if at the outset they intended doing so.
Página 1 - PROLONGED AND CAREFULLY DIRECTED WORK OTIS W. CALDWELL, SCHOOL OF EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, CHICAGO, ILL. I. NO INCREASE IN THE PERCENTAGE OF PUPILS WHO COMPLETE A HIGHSCHOOL COURSE In the period between 1900 and 1910, the number of pupils in public high schools in the United States increased over 76 per cent (from 519,251 to 915,061).
Página 156 - ... American mothers. PHYSICAL EDUCATION IN THE HIGH SCHOOL IN THE PRESENT EMERGENCY WS SMALL, SPECIALIST IN SCHOOL HYGIENE, UNITED STATES BUREAU OF EDUCATION, WASHINGTON, DC In the year 1917, 2,500,000 men between the ages of twenty-one and thirty-one years were examined for the National Army. Of these, 34 per cent were found physically unfit for military service and were rejected. Many of these were rejected on account of remediable defects; just how many we do not know, but probably somewhere...
Página 1 - Joseph. Function of secondary education. The services rendered the state of Tennessee by its first-class county high schools. Nashville, Tenn., George Peabody college for teachers [1920] Ш)р.
Página 23 - ... but they have been instrumental in starting further investigation in the United States Bureau of Education, and in private societies and foundations. For example, growing out of the work of the Committee on Exceptional Children, a new committee has been appointed to prepare a report to be published by the United States Bureau of Education. At the request of the Council Committee on Provision for Exceptional Children, the Commissioner of Education called a conference at the Indianapolis meeting...
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Página 156 - An essential part of the educationalcampaign for this fall will be provision for physical education. The war has brought home to us the failure of schools in this particular as nothing else could have done. Of the two and a half million men examined for the National Army in 1017, 34 per cent were found physically unfit for military service and were rejected.
Página 155 - As shown in the next chapter, it has only been within the last decade or so that the whole process of LRP has begun to be taken seriously by business leadership.