The present study is concerned with the smaller secondary schools, those schools which in the main afford the opportunities for secondary education to the children of the smaller centers of population and rural areas. In order to make the picture as complete as possible, the study has included high schools with enrollments ranging from fewer than 20 pupils to a group of schools enrolling more than 300 high-school pupils and standing on the border line between what are ordinarily classed as small high schools and those generally classed as large high schools. With respect to the number of teachers, the schools supplying the data for the study range all the way from 4-year high schools with 1 teacher to schools with staffs of more than 20 teachers. Throughout the study the data are tabulated with reference to two groups or classes of schools, namely (1) "the selected schools" and (2) "the selected schools"; comparisons are constantly made between these two groups. The main purposes of the present study are: (1) To make and analysis of the status and characteristics of secondary education in small high schools of different sizes; (2) To determine, as far as possible, the major limitations due to the smallness of the schools belonging to the different size groups; (3) To discover through the investigation of the schools belonging to the different size groups the changes, if any, that are taking place in the characteristics of secondary education in small secondary schools; (4) To investigate the characteristics of a group of selected schools representing the different sizes found in small communities and rural areas; (5) To compare these selected schools of different sizes with each other and with the unselected schools to discover the nature of the differences, if any, that exist; and (6) To determine what, if any, innovations or significant departures from ordinary practices exist in the selected schools that may be of value to smaller secondary schools in general. Individual sections contain footnotes. (Contains 97 tables.) [Best copy available has been provided.].

The purpose of this report on research in secondary education is to study: (1) the personnel of educational research bureaus; (2) the undertakings of research departments in city school systems and in individual secondary schools; (3) the research undertakings carried on by individual secondary-school staff members not officially connected with research bureaus or departments; and (4) the nature of the research conducted in secondary education within schools and school systems. Inquiry revealed that few bureaus of research have been organized in secondary schools and that nearly all research in secondary education carried on in school systems is conducted by the bureaus of research of city school systems. This necessitated the study of these bureaus, especially with respect to their activities at the secondary-school level. This bulletin is divided into six chapters, as follows: (1) The Problem and Methods of Investigation; (2) Bureaus of Educational Research and Secondary Education; (3) Functions of Bureaus of Research; (4) Research outside the Bureaus; (5) Classification and Analysis of Researches Made; and (6) Summary and Conclusions. (Contains 25 tables, 6 figures, and 38 footnotes.) [Best copy available has been provided.].

This manuscript, prepared by Doctor Koos and the staff, is a summary of the entire survey as published in 27 other monographs. It epitomizes the organization of secondary education, giving due stress to full-time and part-time schools; to the nature of the secondary-school population, showing that it has increased very greatly and, therefore, it has more variety than formerly; to the resulting reorganized forms of secondary education, particularly the junior high school, the 6-year school, and the junior college. This monograph contains the following chapters: (1) Some highlights in the findings of the survey; (2) Using the reports and findings of the survey; (3) Making the survey; (4) The Horizontal organization of secondary education; (5) The Secondary-school population; (6) The Vertical reorganization of secondary education; (7) The smaller secondary schools; (8) Secondary education for Negroes; (9) District organization and secondary education; (10) Legal and regulatory control of secondary education; (11) Trends in the articulation of high school and college; (12) Administrative and supervisory staffs and programs of supervision; (13) Selection and appointment of teachers; (14) Provisions for individual differences; (15) Programs of guidance; (16) Research within schools and systems; (17) Interpreting the secondary school to the public; (18) The secondary school library; (19) Procedures in curriculum making; (20) Trends in programs of studies; (21) Instruction in certain subject groups; (22) Nonathletic extracurriculum activities; (23) Intramural and interscholastic athletics; and (24) Health work and physical education. Individual chapters contain footnotes. (Contains 7 figures and 2 tables.) [Best copy available has been provided.].

The interest of the American people in education, the extent and rapid growth of education as public enterprise, and the popularization of secondary schools in recent years are well known and are subjects of frequent comment. Less well known, however, are the interest and activity of the Negro, one of the constituent elements in American life, in education. This is particularly true with reference to education at the secondary level. It is the purpose of this report, therefore, to furnish information concerning the availability and present status of secondary education for the colored race in the Southern States. Following a Letter of Transmittal, this monograph contains the following chapters: (1) Purpose, scope, and procedure; (2) Availability of secondary education--The general situation; (3) Availability of secondary education--The distribution of high schools; (4) The organization of schools; (5) The high school offering; (6) The pupils; (7) Teachers and principals; (8) Certain practices in administration and supervision; (9) Housing and equipment; and (10) Summary, conclusions, and recommendations. (Contains 51 tables, 15 figures, and 27 footnotes.) [Best copy available has been provided.].

This manuscript was written by Grayson N. Kefauver, a part-time specialist, and Victor H. Noll and C. Elwood Drake, full-time specialists engaged on the National Survey of Secondary Education. It deals with pupils who attended the part-time continuation school's four or more hours a week and also with those who attended evening high schools. It was found that as a group, pupils who attended the continuation schools are slightly lower in intelligence and slightly older in chronological age than are those in the full-time high school. Because they come from a lower socio-economic group, the reason for leaving the full-time school was frequently the necessity for earning a living for themselves or for their relatives. In general, the enrollment in these continuation schools seems to have reached its peak about 1928 and to have declined somewhat after that time. This monograph contains the following chapters: (1) General acceptance of part-time secondary education; (2) The prevalence and programs of continuation schools; (3) Characteristics of pupils enrolled in continuation schools; (4) Prevalence and programs of evening schools; (5) Characteristics of pupils enrolled in evening schools; and (6) Concluding comments on continuation and evening schools. Individual chapters contain footnotes. (Contains 6 figures and 39 tables.) [Best copy available has been provided.].

This manuscript in two parts is one of the larger ones of the National Survey of Secondary Education. Part I was prepared by A. K. Loomis and Edwin S. Lide. It deals with the program of studies in junior and senior high schools; the purpose, principally, is to trace the trends. For instance, the programs of studies in 60 junior high schools were studied for a 10-year period. The 14 programs investigated by the Commonwealth Fund in 1923 were also investigated in 1930-31. Certain trends revealed in recent revisions of the curriculum and the comparison of programs before and after junior high school reorganization were studied. A comparison was made of the programs of studies in reorganized and unreorganized schools. Similarly the programs of studies in 152 senior high schools were studied through a 6-year period, in 54 schools through a 16-year period, and in 35 schools over a 25-year period. The programs investigated by the Commonwealth Fund in 1924 were likewise brought up to date. The trends revealed through recent revisions and the trends in private school curriculums recently revised were also studied. In Part II of this manuscript B. Lamar Johnson gives attention to registration and schedule making. The importance of a pupil making a good start through a clean-cut registration each fall is emphasized, and the schedules adopted for the use of pupils and teachers together with the best time of opening and closing the school day are given attention. Individual chapters contains footnotes. (Part I contains 19 figures and 103 tables. Part II contains 37 tables.) [Best copy available has been provided.].

The social studies, as defined by the Committee on Social Studies of the Commission on the Reorganization of Secondary Education, "are understood to be those whose subject matter relates directly to the organization and development of human society and to man as a member of social groups." More specifically, the social studies in the secondary school comprise a group of subjects including history, civics, economics, and sociology, with certain relatively undefined boundaries and ramifications in the subject matter of geography, vocations, ethics, and home-making. The study presented in this manuscript gives an outline of what constitutes the social studies in the junior high schools in some 55 cities and in the senior high schools in some 43 cities. After an enumeration which shows 22 differently named subjects in the junior high school and 27 in the senior high school, a careful analysis is made of these courses from the standpoint of statements of objectives of the social sciences, characteristics of the courses in most important subjects, selection and arrangement of curriculum materials, provisions for indicating individual differences of pupils, teaching methods, and testing. The study is divided into the following 10 parts: (1) The Social Studies in Secondary Education; (2) Objectives in the Social Studies; (3) Social Studies Programs in Junior and Senior High Schools; (4) Analysis of Junior High School Courses; (5) Analysis of Senior High School Courses; (6) Principles for Selection and Organization of Content; (7) Adaptation of Materials to Meet Pupil Needs; (8) Methods and Procedures in Teaching; (9) Measuring the Learning Product; and (10) Summary and Conclusions. (Contains 13 tables and 43 footnotes.) [Best copy available has been provided.].