Category: History - Schools & Universities

The high school failures

As the measuring of the achievements of the public schools has become a distinctive feature of the more recent activities in the educational field, the failure in expected accomplishment by the school, and its proficiency in turning out a negative product, have been forced upo...

Chapters

1. Chapter 1

As the measuring of the achievements of the public schools has become a distinctive feature of the more recent activities in the educational field, the failure in expected accom...

2. Chapter 2

With no purpose of making this a comparative study of schools, the separate units or schools indicated in Chapter I will from this point be combined into a composite and treated...

3. Chapter 3

Any definite factors available for the school that have a prognostic value in reference to school failures will help to perform a function quite comparable to the science of pre...

4. Chapter 4

to secure his subject grades, else no failure is counted and no time is charged to his period in school. In this connection, Dr. C.H. Keyes[14] found in a study of elementary sc...

5. Chapter 5

all the factors thus far considered to employ for a prognosis of failure. For of all pupils taking Latin we may confidently expect an average of a little less than one pupil in...

6. Chapter 6

It has been noted in section 1 of Chapter II that 58.1 per cent of all the graduates have school failures. Here we mean to carry the analysis and comparison in reference to grad...

7. Chapter 7

8. Chapter 8

The caption of this chapter suggests the inquiry as to what are the agencies employed by the school for this purpose, and how extensively does each function? The different means...

9. Chapter 9

In view of the fact that some of the pupils do not fail in any part of their school work, there is a certain popular presumption that failure must be significant of pupil inferi...

10. Chapter 10

It is not the purpose of this chapter to formulate conclusions that are arbitrary, fixed, or all-complete. There are definite reasons why that should not be attempted. The autho...

11. Chapter 11

integral part of this report on the field of the research. Indeed the purpose of this study will not have been served most fully until it has been made the subject of discussion...