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.].

Study of horizontal organization of secondary education is concerned principally with two classes of education at that level. In the first place it deals with all types of specialized education, whether found in special curriculums such as college preparatory and industrial arts in comprehensive schools, or in special schools, each emphasizing academic work, commercial subjects, manual arts, trades, or some other field. In the second place it deals with part-time education exemplified in the continuation and evening school. This monograph contains the following chapters: (1) The Problem of Horizontal organization; (2) Programs of different types of secondary schools; (3) Part-time cooperative curriculums; (4) The guidance of pupils in comprehensive and specialized school systems; (5) The Proximity of residence of pupils to secondary schools; (6) Characteristics of pupils in various curriculums and schools; (7) Attitudes and association of academic and vocational pupils; (8) Educational and vocational activities of former pupils; (9) Correspondence courses in public secondary schools; (10) The Summer high schools; and (11) The evidence and the issues. Individual chapters contain footnotes. (Contains 84 tables and 10 figures.) [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.].

Within a period of 30 years the high-school enrollment has increased from a little over 10 percent of the population of high-school age to more than 50 per cent of that population. This enrollment is so unusual for a secondary school that it has attracted the attention of Europe, where only 8 to 10 per cent attend secondary schools. Many European educators have said that the United States is educating too many people. In order to know where the United States stands in secondary education, the membership of the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools four years ago took the lead in urging a study. This manuscript deals with one of the major topics of the Survey, namely, the district organization. This monograph is organized into three sections. The contents are as follows. Part I: District Organization in the United States: (1) The local school district and the secondary school; (2) Availability of secondary education within local districts; (3) Special provisions for secondary education; (4) Plans for the reorganization of school districts; and (5) Conclusion. Part II: School and district organization in California: (1) Purpose, scope, and procedures; (2) The present situation in California; (3) The situation in a typical county; (4) Proposed reorganization of administrative units; (5) Superintendency areas in seven counties; (6) Proposed changes in States policies and school laws; and (7) Summary and conclusions. Part III: School and district organization in Illinois: (1) Legal background and growth of township and community high schools; (2) Conditions in selected districts and schools; and (3) District problems in secondary schools in Illinois. (Individual parts contain tables, figures, and footnotes.) [Best copy available has been provided.].

This manuscript on mathematics was prepared by Dr. Edwin S. Lide, one of the full-time workers on the Survey. It gives attention to courses of study mostly in mimeographed form which he succeeded in obtaining and to personal visitations which he made to the various schools. It covers the work in the junior high school and in the senior high school. The wide effect of the National Committee on Mathematics on the courses of study and on practice are here recorded. This monograph contains the following chapters: (1) General characteristics of outlines of courses; (2) Mathematics in junior high school grades; (3) Mathematics in senior high school grades; (4) Influences on the production and use of courses of study; and (5) Summary and conclusion. Individual chapters contain footnotes. (Contains 1 figure and 13 tables.) [Best copy available has been provided.].

The chief purpose of this study has been to determine what existing forms of American secondary-school organization are of greatest promise. The study has sought, in particular, to discover the effects of the junior high school movement upon practice in school organization, to secure objective evidence as to the comparative merits of reorganized and conventionally organized secondary schools, and to provide a basis for estimating the relative promise of various types of junior and senior high schools. No generally accepted standards have thus far been formulated by which the worth of various types of school organization may be measured. The most commonly recognized standards are those of the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. The regulations of this association embody criteria on the basis of which member schools are accredited. The criteria deal, however, only with minimum essentials of organization. Like the standards proposed by other accrediting agencies and by individual specialists in secondary education, they afford small basis for distinguishing among schools which are well above a merely minimum level. This bulletin contains the following parts: (1) The Reorganized Secondary School; (2) Recent Growth and Present Status of the Public Junior College; and (3) Special Reorganizations of School Systems. Appended are: (1) A list of secondary schools (supplying detailed information for use in connection with Part I), which report exceptionally comprehensive organizations; and (2) A list of needed investigations of school organization revealed in Part I. Individual sections contain footnotes. (Contains 46 tables and 16 figures.) [Best copy available has been provided.].