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High School Courses of Study; A Constructive Study Applied to New York City

High School Courses of Study; A Constructive Study Applied to New York City

Davis, Calvin Olin

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General World History

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ISBN10: 1458954587
ISBN13: 9781458954589
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 54
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.11 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IX THE SPECIAL COURSES COMPARED WE have treated the published special courses of study in the ten cities in precisely the same manner that we treated the general courses in these cities (see p. 76), and for the same reasons. In consequence we present here only a somewhat detailed summary of the results obtained from those analyses.1 IN WHAT CITIES SPECIAL COURSES OR SCHOOLS ARE FOUND The analyses of the special courses of study show that, of the ten cities compared, five (Boston, Cleveland, Detroit, Indianapolis, and Newark) provide differentiated or special high schools devoting their efforts to intensive training in special or technical lines. These five cities provide such schools for both boys and girls. All ten of the cities, however, save Indianapolis, offer, in addition, special courses in mechanic arts for boys, domestic and applied art for girls, and commercial work for both boys and girls in all of the general high schools. Indianapolis confines all work in mechanic arts for boys and domestic art and science for girls to the one school, the Manual Training High School, but this school is not regarded as a strictly technical school. The restriction to this school of the subjects mentioned is purely a matter of local convenience, the work in every respect being considered academic and cultural in character, not vocational. 1 The working papers of these analyses have been filed with the Committee on School Inquiry. Of the five cities having special high schools, three have only one such school (Detroit, Indianapolis, Newark); one city (Cleveland) has two, and one city (Boston) has five. In the other cities all technical and quasi-vocational work is organized within the general high schools. New York City, therefore, in administering the tec...

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