Integration Of The War Effort And Of The Long-Term Program In California Secondary Schools (Paperback)

INTEGRATION OF THE WAR EFFORT AND OF THE LONG-TERM PROGRAM IN CALIFORNIA SECONDARY SCHOOLS Prepared by AUBREY A. DOUGLASS Assistant Superintendent of Public Instrucfion and Chief of the Division of Secondary Education, California State Department of Education CALIFORNIA SOCIETY OF SECONDARY EDUCATION MONOGRAPH SERIES November, 1942 CALIFORNIA SOCIETY OF SECONDARY EDUCATION BOOMS 9-10, HAVI1AND KALI, BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA PREFACE IT HAS been nearly a year since the Editorial Board and the editor of the California Journal of Secondary Education, in formulat ing plans for 1941-42, reached a decision that a series of articles dealing with the curriculum organization of the California senior and four-year high schools should be published during the spring of 1942. It was decided that the descriptions of curriculum organiza tion should sample schools in various parts of the State and should be representative of communities of varied populations. It was ex pected that the entire group of articles would be sufficiently repre sentative to include all, or nearly all, of the plans of curriculum development found in California high schools. It was planned also that an examination be made of the series of articles in order to detect trends in development and to predict, if possible, the direction development would be likely to take in the next few years. The Editorial Board was of the opinion that the descriptions of curriculum developments in individual schools, plus examination and evaluation which indicated trends and possible future developments, would be of considerable value to those inter ested in secondary education. It was anticipated that these materials would be incorporated into amonograph to be published by the Society during the summer of 1942. These plans were formulated before December 7. Since that time, numerous demands have been made on the schools of the Nation and of the State because of the war situation. Accordingly, it has seemed best to enlarge the original concept of this monograph to include recent developments in secondary schools in response to war de mands. The contents of the present monograph, therefore, include descriptions of the new developments that have resulted from the war effort, as well as the original descriptions of curriculum patterns and the accompanying judgment on developing trends in secondary education. The task of organizing the materials has been a difficult one, and the result leaves much to be desired. In his examination of the organization of the monograph, the reader should consider the original purpose, which was to present and analyze curriculum organizations and trends in senior and four-year high school curricu lums he is asked to judge kindly the organization of a publication whose original purpose has been modified by developments of the past few months. In the process of editing and compiling, only minor editorial changes have been made in the manuscripts of the contributors, the contributions having been threaded together by introductory para graphs and by sections designed to give supplemental or additional information. This has resulted, as the reader will observe, in the fact that the length of an article sometimes gives too much and sometimes too little emphasis to the topic or question treated. As the reader will observe, the opening chapter describes recent developments in certain of the Los Angeles Countyhigh schools. The description is comprehensive in character and serves as an excellent introduction to more detailed descriptions which come later. Chap ters 2 and 3 are composed of contributions by individuals excellently qualified to treat the respective topics. The chapters describing cur riculum organizations contain the basic plans in existence in the respective schools although changes and adaptations have occurred in practically all of them since December 7, the main features remain...