During the period 1918 to 1926 the total population of the United States increased somewhat less than 15,000,000, not quite a 14 per cent growth, according to estimates of the Bureau of the Census. During this same time the number of high schools increased 5,400, a 33 per cent increase. The teaching force in these schools practically doubled. The number of pupils, too, came within a hundred thousand of doubling during the 8-year period. Costs increased more than 300 per cent. This bulletin discusses the following topics as they relate to secondary education: (1) Growth in public high schools; (2) The reorganization movement; (3) The Junior College; (4) The curriculum; (5) Articulation between educational units; and (6) Research and secondary education. (Contains 39 footnotes and 4 tables.) [Best copy available has been provided.].

This bulletin presents statistics of public high schools from 1937-38. This bulletin contains the following sections: (1) A 99-percent record; (2) Character of the tables; (3) Size of school; (4) Reorganization; (5) 11-year and 12-year systems; (6) Retention in school; (7) Graduates; (8) Professional staff; (9) Equipment; (10) Small schools and evening schools; and (11) Table index. An index is included. (Contains 65 tables and 2 figures.) [Statistical tables prepared under direction of David T. Blose. Best copy available has been provided.].

Education in the United States faces important problems in the large and increasing enrollments in secondary schools, in the wide variety of interests and the extensive range of capacities represented in the pupils coming to these schools, and in the peculiar needs by pupils of early adolescent age for advice and guidance on social, moral, educational, and vocational issues which they imminently must decide, no matter how inadequately prepared they may be to make the needed decisions. Moreover, since the end of the compulsory school age usually comes within the secondary school period, pupils are withdrawing at all times, thus placing a demand for flexibility in the courses such as is required at no other level. In its effort to record basic facts regarding the development of secondary education through the years the Office of Education includes data on secondary schools in the chapters entitled "Statistics of State School Systems" and "Statistics of City School Systems" which appear in every issue of the Biennial Survey of Education. Quadriennially in the same publication appear chapters on Statistics of Public High Schools and Statistics of Private High Schools. The present chapter on "Trends in Secondary Education" is included to provide opportunity for discussion of significant movements and undertakings which do not lend themselves appropriately to analyses so exclusively statistical in character as those previously mentioned. This chapter was written principally by Carl A. Jessen, senior specialist in secondary education. Certain sections of the chapter were prepared by other members of the Office staff. These contributions are indicated by footnotes at the appropriate places in the chapter. The subjects of the sections and their authors are as follows: (1) Exceptional Pupils (Elise H. Martens); (2) Vocational Education (C. M. Arthur); (3) Small High Schools (Division of Special Problems); (4) Tests and Measurements (David Segel); and (5) Guidance (Maris M. Proffitt). (Contains 5 tables and 37 footnotes.) [Best copy available has been provided.].