The High School Is Responsible for the Junior College

1948 ◽  
Vol 56 (5) ◽  
pp. 270-274
Author(s):  
James W. Newcomer
Keyword(s):  
Author(s):  
Loren Groves

I’m a 30-year-old white male who graduated high school with a 2.0 GPA by turning in a 10-page report two days before I had to walk the stage. I went to one semester of junior college at Evergreen Valley College. At the time I was also in a band and was sleeping through classes. My teachers asked me to sleep outside if I was going to do that, so I did. Then they would lay the notes and transparencies from their lectures on me when I woke up. I passed all my classes but decided it was time to double down on either band or school, and I chose band....


2017 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Soo-yong Byun ◽  
Hyunjoon Park

Using longitudinal data for a nationally representative sample of ninth graders in South Korea, we examine socioeconomic differences in the likelihood of making transitions into different types of high school and college with a goal of testing the validity of the effectively maintained inequality hypothesis. We find significant socioeconomic disparities in the likelihood of attending an academic high school and a 4-year university. However, the predicted probabilities suggest that even disadvantaged students typically choose an academic high school relative to a vocational high school. Furthermore, although disadvantaged students likely end up with a 2-year junior college, those disadvantaged students graduating from an academic high school typically choose a 4-year university, after controlling for academic achievement and other variables. We discuss the relevance of the effectively maintained inequality hypothesis for South Korea and broad implications for elsewhere where postsecondary education is increasingly available for the majority of population.


1933 ◽  
Vol 26 (5) ◽  
pp. 292-295
Author(s):  
W. W. Gorsline

The Program of this meeting was composed of three papers on the following subjects: The Slide Rule in the Junior High School, The Slide Rule in the Senior High School, and The Slide Rule in the Junior College. The first paper advocated that the slide rule should be studied in the seventh, eighth and ninth grades. No explanation of the foundation principles of logarithms was mentioned, and only the simplest operations of multiplication, division, proportion, squares and square roots were explained. If the student starts to study an instrument when he is young, even though he doesn't understand all the reasons, he will be ready for the further study of the foundation principles upon which the slide rule is based when be gets to the senior high school and junior college. When the pupil begins the study of logarithms in the third year of high school then he will be ready to understand fully all the reasons for any procedure with the slide rule.


1945 ◽  
Vol 38 (5) ◽  
pp. 195-221

This report presents suggestions for improving mathematical instruction from the beginning of the elementary school through the last year of junior college. The program throughout these grades is in need of a thoroughgoing reorganization. The arithmetic of the elementary school can be and must be improved. The high school needs to come to grips with its dual responsibility, (1) to provide sound mathematical training for our future leaders of science, mathematics, and other learned fields, and (2) to insure mathematical competence for the ordinary affairs of life to the extent that this can be done for all citizens as a part of a general education appropriate for the major fraction of the high school population. Then, too, the junior college, which has grown up without a well considered design, should now take stock of its valid functions before it enters its second period of rapid expansion. It is reasonable to believe that the greatest advance can be made if teachers of mathematics in the elementary school, in the secondary school, and in the junior college, attack the problem together. At any rate it is sensible because of the essential continuity of mathematical instruction to plan the improvements in any one grade in terms of the total program.


1945 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel Ralph Powers ◽  
David James Blick

1999 ◽  
Vol 76 (1) ◽  
pp. 69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Meszaros ◽  
Thomas J. Russo

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