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...They Did It. In the light of these findings, The Story of the Eight-Year Study (author: Ohio State's Wilford M. Aikin) may outline the high-school pattern of the future. It begins with a dismaying picture (as of 1933) of the nation's junior and senior high schools, which almost 10,000,000 U.S. youngsters attend yearly. The investigating commission found the schools dull and unchallenging, lacking in a central purpose, their graduates not even "competent in the use of the English language." Though five out of six high school graduates do not go to college...
...running the schools. Because the problems of no two communities were exactly alike, each school had to chart its own road. Teachers, no longer able to discharge their duties by assigning lessons from a textbook and listening to recitations, had to learn their job all over again. Says Author Aikin: "The teacher has always had the leading role in schools everywhere. In democracy's high school his part becomes even more important. He does not merely play his assigned part; he helps select the play and is concerned with the whole production...
Some 250 top-notch colleges of all types agreed to do so. A special P. E. A. commission, headed by painstaking Wilford Aikin, then headmaster of progressive John Burroughs School in Clayton, Mo., set up an elaborate experiment. Colleges were to admit without examination the graduates of 30 selected progressive high schools. Each of these graduates was to be paired, for comparison, with a graduate of a first-rate conventional school, of the same sex, race, age, intelligence, interests, family background...
From these findings Wilford Aikin and his fellow commissioners drew only this cautious conclusion: Progressive schooling is at least no handicap to success in college. But they believed that the implications of their conclusion were revolutionary: if traditional high-school courses had no advantages for the college-bound, why should not every U. S. high school be free to try new ways? Armed with this thesis, the Commission last spring began conferences with college officers. It proposed that colleges substitute simpler entrance requirements. A suggested plan: 1) recommendation of a student by his high-school principal, 2) the student...
...Commission on the Relation of School and College. This is the famed "so-schools experiment," comparing achievements of boys and girls from Progressive schools, admitted to college without examination, with those of matched graduates of conventional schools. Last week Commission Chairman Wilford M. Aikin, of Ohio State, reported that by the second year of this five-year trial, Progressive students were doing a little better in marks than conventional ones, were using their college opportunities more wisely...