Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Scarsdale High thus provides almost a self-contained community environment for its students. A well-organized athletic program, a complete range of extracurricular activities, and a series of social functions, as well as the academic schedule, all fall under the high school's aegis. Social life too usually revolves around high school friends, and cafeteria, corridors, and auditorium provide popular, if not private, sites for rendezvous...
...work-study-play" program designed for mill workers' children. According to Roser, the Wirt System "was partially an attempt to meet the needs of a rapidly expanding population, with minimum building facilities, and partially a revolt against the typical 'Latin School' type of upper class education." The inclusion of extracurricular activities during the school day for credit was an integral feature of the system...
Unchallenged by the mediocrity of his course, the bright student often channels his excess ambitions and abilities into extracurricular activities. Music, drama, speech, and journalism are available in the clubs which meet for an hour each...
...innovations has been to regulate the maximum number of credits that can be earned in a particular area of extracurricular activity. For instance, there is a limit on the number of years that speech or dramatics can be taken for credit...
Gary's recognition of its educational shortcomings and the improvements made so far are laudable. They do not make Gary high schools into preparatory academies. Neither do they detract from the excellence of the many extracurricular activities, nor do they eliminate the "fun" aspect of Midwestern high school life...