Word: types
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contrasts do not exist merely between public and private schools. American high schools range all the way from Scarsdale High and Newton High (above right) which have many advanced courses of the college freshman type for able students, to the poorer high schools which spend a disproportionate amount of time in driver training, cooking, shop, home-making, and other such pursuits, to the very worst institutions in the country such as the school shown above (left...
...analysis of the Gary school system must take into consideration the type of community it serves. A mushrooming city founded only 52 years ago, Gary is the home of United States Steel's largest single plant, which employs about one-fifth of the city's residents...
...established by William A. Wirt, who instituted a "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...
...greatest social hazard for a Horace Mann student is being different. Clothes are particularly conformist and fadish. To school the girls wear skirts and blouses or sweaters, and whatever type of shoes is the rage that year. Boys wear sport shirts or sweaters and "drapes"--slightly tapered, flannel slacks. Suit jackets and ties are never seen during school hours...
...second improvement is the introduction of a wider variety of courses in the curriculum. More languages and advanced courses in science, mathematics, and English have been added or proposed. This type of improvement is limited, however, unless the Gary system is someday consolidated into fewer and larger schools...