by Andrea Nikischer, Lois Weis & Rachel Dominguez - 2016
In this article we explore the ways in which the work of counseling departments in two different school environments shape students’ STEM participation in high school, with important potential consequences for STEM in college and beyond.
by Christy Galletta Horner, Tanner LeBaron Wallace & Matthew Bundick - 2015
This study explores youths’ perspectives on school-based emotional expression, emotional suppression, and emotion coaching in urban high schools.
by Thomas Evans - 2000
Drawing on four case studies, the author considers the activities of mentors that help the students they guide become more prepared for schooling and careers.
by William Van Til - 1976
In 1972 the Board of Directors of the National Society for the
Study of Education sought the advice of several educators with
respect to the nature of a possible yearbook on secondary education
in the United States. A large majority of the respondents urged
that such a yearbook should focus on central issues.
by William Van Til - 1976
In the United States, public secondary education is being vigorously
examined today. The criticism has been sharp during the past decade.
Some critics have concluded that there is no hope whatever for
public secondary education as currently conceived, organized, and
practiced. Others have called for reform through new educational partnerships
between the school and community.
by Robert Beck - 1976
In the history of education all issues with which the writer is
familiar have originated in what people have thought desirable for
education. Thus, the history of issues in American secondary education
involves perceptions of, and sometimes debates on, what is desirable.
In this discussion, we shall deal with a few crucial issues, which we
shall call core issues, plus a very few conjoint issues. Both will be discussed
in terms of their respective social and cultural milieus, and
within broad periods of time.
by Arthur Combs - 1976
Whatever is done to improve high school education must be related
to some conception of the nature of learners and of the learning
process. For several generations our thinking about high school education
has been based primarily upon behavioristic views of what people
are like and how they behave. Those concepts may have been useful
guides when high school goals were simpler, curricula were limited,
and the pace of societal change was slower. Secondary education of
today and tomorrow must be much more complex and geared to the
satisfaction of quite different student and societal needs.To meet these
demands, new theoretical concepts are required to orient our thinking
and to point the way to new techniques and processes designed to meet
current needs. Fortunately, such concepts are available in modern
humanistic psychology.
by Lawrence Metcalf - 1976
Behind any theory of learning is to be found an image of humankind.
The image that responds blindly to external influence is not the
only one available.
by Willis Harman - 1976
The paramount social reality is that the technologically advanced
nations of the world are approaching one of the great transformations
of human history. Even a few years ago it would have been necessary
to hedge that statement with tentativeness and qualification. At this
point few would question it. In this chapter we undertake the delineation
of this transformation—its salient characteristics and the choice of
responses—and the identification of the most important implications
for education.
by Arthur Foshay - 1976
In this chapter, we shall examine the ways man's experience is
made available to the young, with special attention to the fact that the
official version of what is most meaningful in man's experience is
offered in school. In systematic school instruction, knowledge is
offered in three forms. The confusion of these forms with one another
explains in some degree the feeling of meaninglessness many high
school students associate with formal school learning. They take what
they can, but many of them consider nonformal experience to be more
meaningful than school experience. From our consideration of this
situation, certain recommendations pertaining to formal school instruction
will emerge.
by Vernon Smith & Robert Barr - 1976
Where should learning take place? On an airstrip? At an aquarium?
In an artist's studio? In a computer center? At a drug crisis center? In a
hospital? In a hotel? At a medical center? In a museum? In a national
monument? In an office building? At a Playboy Club? In a railroad
station? On a showboat? In a storefront? In a TV studio? At a theater?
In a Victorian mansion? In a warehouse? On wheels? At a zoo? These
are a few of the settings for alternative schools and action-learning
programs currently in operation.
by William Van Til - 1976
The question to which this chapter is addressed can be phrased in
many ways. Herbert Spencer expressed it as "What knowledge is of
most worth?" To Robert S. Lynd, it was "Knowledge for what?" To
the contributors to a yearbook of the Association for Supervision and
Curriculum Development it was "What shall the high schools teach?"
and to the authors of a later ASCD pamphlet, "What are the sources of
the curriculum?''
by J. Trump & Gordon Vars - 1976
A cartoon prominently displayed in countless school administrators'
offices shows two recumbent figures, one of whom says, "One of these days we've got to get organized." The message of this
chapter is that organization--the fitting together of all the elements
necessary for an institution to achieve its purposes--is truly a major
factor in the success of any program of secondary education. We will
especially consider the domain of secondary education and, in particular,
curriculum organization, staff organization, other structural
elements, and patterns to enhance motivation.
by David Abramson - 1972
Study compared subject requirements for college admission with those for ongoing study in the corresponding subjects reflected in the college liberal arts program''; author concludes that colleges have arbitrarily determined high school curriculum, and urges reform.
by Philip Barwell - 1972
In 1965, the Department of Education and Science eliminated the Tripartite System where the grammar school was favored, the secondary modern school ignored and technical schools never materialized. The system was reorganized so that individuals were not penalized because of social background and everyone's potential could be fully developed.
by Patty Wirth - 1970
The author's ambivalence toward the school and "the system" is not uncharacteristic of the conflict experienced by so many of today's students; and our purpose in presenting her piece here is to underscore the warnings that the teaching process must be changed.
by James Fenner - 1970
The author is concerned about the fundamental irrelevance of the high school curriculum for young people needing to know how to make sense of the real world, how to find their way through its labyrinths, how to effect controls. Acknowledging the value of traditional studies for those who are interested, he proposes a series of elective courses aimed at relating the school to out-of-school interests.
by Ruth Strang - 1953
In addition to
providing a "lush" and "benign" environment, it is necessary to guide
individuals in the use of this environment and to help them, when possible,
to take the initiative in making the environment more favorable to
adolescent growth and development. This is the individualized aspect of
education which we call guidance.
by Franklin Johnson - 1927
THE following quotation from the writer's Administration and JL Supervision of the High School sets forth his conception of the scope and function of the library in the modern high school:
"The complete lack or the meagerness of space suitable for library purposes in the great majority of our high school buildings reveals a striking failure to appreciate the important part which the school library should have in high school education.
by Laurence Steinberg - 2015
This commentary examines the failings of American high schools.