Patterns of Curriculum Organization in Large Secondary Schools

Abstract

organization in secondary schools have been studied by several investigators during the past thirty-five years. In 1921 Stout1 traced the development of the high-school curriculum in the North Central states from 1860 to 1918. In 1929 Bradley2 studied the programs of fifty-four secondary schools and indicated changes that had been made since 1914-15. In 1931 Van Dyke3 analyzed the programs of thirty-five high schools originally included in Stout's study. The most comprehensive survey of the programs of secondary schools was presented in the various monographs of the National Survey of Secondary Education in 1933, under the leadership of L. V. Koos and sponsored by the United States Office of Education.4