The Comprehensive High School, Enrollment Expansion, and Inequality: The United States in the Postwar Era

2007 ◽  
pp. 53-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
John L. Rury
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
High School ◽  
The United States ◽  
School Enrollment ◽  
Comprehensive High School

Modern Curriculum Problems in the Teaching of Mathematics in Secondary Schools

1939 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 118-128
Author(s):  
W. D. Reeve
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
High School ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
The United States ◽  
School Enrollment ◽  
The Other ◽  
The World ◽  
Teaching Of Mathematics

The United States has more children above fourteen years of age in school than all the other countries of the world. In many communities, we have sixty per cent and in a few cases as high as ninety per cent of the ten million pupils of eligible age in school. High school enrollment has grown five times as fast as the population in general. According to Douglass,

Examining the engagement of career academy and comprehensive high school students in the United States

2020 ◽  
Vol 113 (4) ◽  
pp. 247-261
Author(s):  
Edward C. Fletcher ◽  
Amber D. Dumford ◽  
Victor M. Hernandez-Gantes ◽  
Nicholas Minar
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
The United States ◽  
Comprehensive High School ◽  
Career Academy ◽  
School Students

Ten Observations on High School Economics Textbooks

2007 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 201-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Don R. Leet ◽  
Jane S. Lopus
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
High School ◽  
The United States ◽  
Economic Education ◽  
National Standards ◽  
Comprehensive High School ◽  
National Council

This study focuses on the content of eleven high school economics textbooks currently being used throughout the United States. We reviewed them with regard to their attention to the Voluntary National Standards in Economics developed under the auspices of the National Council on Economic Education. In the process of our analysis we made ten observations about these texts, including the statement that these books fall into one of two categories: large, encyclopedic volumes which we label as ‘Comprehensive’ or shorter books aimed at a specific audience which we label as ‘Specialty’ textbooks. While many of the texts have specific shortcomings, we see that the majority of them include more material than the national standards require. Overall there is less variation in the quality of high school textbooks today than was seen in earlier generations of texts; and we argue that the majority of the current crop of comprehensive high school economics texts provides a solid introduction to the economics discipline.

The General Trend of Mathematics Education in Secondary Schools

1924 ◽  
Vol 17 (8) ◽  
pp. 449-458
Author(s):  
W. D. Reeve
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
High School ◽  
Individual Differences ◽  
General Population ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
General Trend ◽  
The United States ◽  
School Enrollment ◽  
School Population ◽  
Education Today

The most significant thing in education today is the wide recognition of individual differences in ability among pupils. This is particularly true in regard to the high school and is due partly to a, realization that our secondary school population is very different from that of thirty years ago “not only in their experiences and interests, but also in their inborn abilities.” According to a recent report of the division of research of the National Educational Association,1 the number of pupils enrolled in high schools in this country has increased from 202,963 in 1890 to 2,229,407 in 1922. In this report we read that “If the population of the United States had increased as rapidly as its high school enrollment since 1890, its general population would now be 687,861,591.”

Internal Threat II

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert B. Archibald
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
High School ◽  
Labor Markets ◽  
College Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
School Enrollment ◽  
College Degree ◽  
Demographic Trends ◽  
Marginal Students

Demographic trends and changes in the perceived value of a degree both can have significant effects on the demand for higher education. Demographic changes in the United States are unlikely to reduce the demand for places in college overall, but falling high school enrollment in the Northeast and Midwest will pressure financially weaker schools in those regions. On average, the payoff to a college degree has grown substantially. The chapter shows that the return to marginal students may also be quite high. Lastly, the evidence from labor markets indicates that a college education is not simply correlated with higher income. It helps cause higher income.

scholarly journals America's Graduation from High School: The Evolution and Spread of Secondary Schooling in the Twentieth Century

1998 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 345-374 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Goldin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
High School ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
State Level ◽  
The United States ◽  
School Enrollment ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Secondary Schooling ◽  
Level Data ◽  
Manufacturing Activity

Secondary-school enrollment and graduation rates increased spectacularly in much of the United States from 1910 to 1940; the advance was particularly rapid from 1920 to 1935 in the nonsouthern states. This increase was uniquely American; no other nation underwent an equivalent change for several decades. States that rapidly expanded their high school enrollments early in the period had greater wealth, more homogeneity of wealth, and less manufacturing activity than others. Factors prompting the expansion include the substantial returns to education early in the century and a responsive “state.” This work is based on a newly constructed state-level data set.

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