Contributions to Education Volume 51 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ...high schools, and a few of the higher ages in colleges, 60 per cent of the fifteen-year-old children of the district schools were in school, 40 per cent of the sixteen-year-olds, 34 per cent of the seventeen-year-olds, 17 per cent of the eighteen-year-olds, and 18 per cent of the nineteen-year-olds. The corresponding figures for the consolidated schools show 79 per cent of the sixteen-year-olds in school, 63 per cent of the seventeen-year-olds, 33 per cent of the eighteenyear-olds, 22 per cent of the nineteen-year-olds, and 10 per cent of the twenty-year-olds. Later entrance in the consolidated schools explains a large part of the apparent difference. Attendance Distribution. The actual total attendance in days for the year is significant to one who is seeking the causes of over-ageness. Reference to Table XXXIII will show that for the children enrolled the percentage of attendance based on enrollment was.70 in the district schools and.80 in the consolidated schools. Inspection of the same table will show that in spite of the absence of high school grades in most of the district schools, these schools enrolled 76 per cent of their census to 80 per cent of census enrolled by the consolidated schools. These lump percentages do not tell much about the actual details of attendance and, to give this information as well as to offer a further explanation of the large number of over-aged children in the grades, Table XLIII is offered. This table shows a complete distribution, in ten-day groups, of the actual attendance of all the children enrolled in both types of schools. Striking Contrasts. The striking contrasts in Table XLIII are seen by adding the highest four-day groups, i.e., 140-150 days, 150-160 days, 160-170 days, and 170-180 days, which shows that 57 per...