Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, Volume 15University of Chicago Press, 1916 - Education |
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Page 7 - Adolescence, which with us is normally from twelve to sixteen or from thirteen to seventeen, determines the period and nature of secondary education.7 An abundance of literature, dealing with all phases of elementary and high-school organization and curricula and including nearly all of the present-day arguments for or against the junior high school, appeared from 1900 to 1904. Three points of emphasis were noticeable. These have persisted, although they are at present less sharply differentiated....
Page 5 - Committee, several subjects now reserved for high schools, — such as algebra, geometry, natural science, and foreign languages, — should be begun earlier than now, and therefore within the schools classified as elementary ; or, as an alternative, the secondary school period should be made to begin two years earlier than at present, leaving six years instead of eight for the elementary school period.
Page 87 - Vermont, small schools were urged to give up the last two years and to consolidate the seventh and eighth grades and the first two years of the high school into a compact, closely articulated unit — in short, into a four-year junior high school.
Page 90 - New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin.
Page 26 - ... are sought, new likings, tendencies, enthusiasms, and emotions make up the whole life. Old landmarks of life fade and new ones are eagerly sought. The sexual ripening determines an entirely new outlook upon life, the earning instinct looms large in the boy, and the home-making instinct in the girl.
Page 26 - These statements are almost certainly misleading. The one instinct whose appearance seems most like a dramatic rushing upon life's stage — the sex instinct — is found upon careful study to be gradually maturing for years. The capacity for reasoning shows no signs by any tests as yet given of developing twice as much in any one year from five to twenty-five as in any other. In the cases where the differences between children of different ages may be taken roughly to measure the rate of inner growth...
Page 17 - This would require that tall, healthy children of accelerated physiological age be encouraged to proceed through school as rapidly as possible within the limits of thoroughness, and that the small, light children of retarded physiological development be kept below or in the normal grade doing supplementary work, since these short, light pupils are immature mentally, although in many instances precocious in brightness.
Page 161 - Superintendent of Schools, Minneapolis, Minn. The report of the nominating committee was presented and the following officers elected: President, Superintendent RJ Condon, of Cincinnati; Vice-President, Professor J. Carleton Bell, University of Texas; Member of Executive Committee for the term expiring in 1919, President Dwight B.
Page 141 - One third of the pupils waste time by being in classes in which they know practically all the material that is being covered in the recitation period and are able to perform all the tasks expected of them.
Page 25 - ... is neo-atavistic, and in him the later acquisitions of the race slowly become prepotent. Development is less gradual and more saltatory, suggestive of some ancient period of storm and stress when old moorings were broken and a higher level attained. The annual rate of growth in height, weight, and strength is increased and often doubled, and even more. Important functions, previously non-existent, arise. Growth of parts and organs loses its former proportions, some permanently and some for a...