Junior High School Practices: A Collection of Articles Dealing with the Junior High School

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Rollo La Verne Lyman, Philip Wescott Lawrence Cox
Laidlaw brothers, 1925 - Education, Secondary - 215 pages
 

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Page 129 - or by not doing exactly a given task, when trusted on his honor, he is not a real Speyer boy. 2. A Speyer boy is Loyal. He is loyal to all
Page 129 - best use of his opportunities. He saves his money so that he may pay his own way, he generous to those in need, and helpful to worthy objects.
Page 5 - an organization of grades seven and eight or seven to nine to provide by various means for individual differences, especially by an earlier introduction of pre-vocational work and of subjects usually taught in the high school.
Page 129 - A Speyer boy is trustworthy. His honor is to be trusted. If he were to violate his honor by telling a lie, or by
Page 7 - can fit scarcely at all, which did its utmost to make alike those children who survived the test, into a system that welcomes, seeks all children, fits work and method to individual needs, and strives to send children out of school just as individually diverse as nature designed them to be and as the diversity of service which awaits them requires.
Page 39 - (2) an ungraded vocational program under the Smith-Hughes Act for boys and girls who must enter industry early; (3) direct vocational guidance and personal supervision; (4) "study-coach" organization and supervised study; (5) the socialization of the entire school, pupils and faculty, into a democracy in keeping with the school creed cited above. I. THE CURRICULUM
Page 26 - development. It means the Americanization of a worldtested principle of curriculum building. It means flexibility and, therefore, science in the manipulation of our total school plants. The junior high school in its name and independent physical existence and form of organization is but the outward manifestation of a sound new philosophy of education." Recent developments in the junior
Page 26 - field are rapidly demonstrating to have been sound. He said nearly ten years ago: "The junior high school is more than anything else a term adopted to denote design in our educational organization and administration. It means that something other than tradition and accident has come to influence
Page 137 - 1. Does your classmate express himself properly at all times? 2. Does he make any remarks that denote low morals? 3. Has he been known to write indecent poems, or carry about objectionable pictures ? 4. Does he insist that those who go with him be a clean crowd? Is he Clean? See "The Speyer Creed.
Page 20 - of relieving senior high schools from all, or nearly all, the pupils of the first year, and of having all, or nearly all of the seventh, eighth, and ninth year pupils included in junior high schools." Chicago.—One of the most important victories won by the junior

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