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The Effect of Compulsory Education and Child Labor Laws on High School Attendance in New York City, 1898-1917
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The twentieth century has witnessed a major transformation of secondary schools from exclusive institutions serving the elite to inclusive institutions serving the general population. This transformation has been marked by radical changes in entrance and graduation requirements, increasing quantity and different quality of students, expansion and dilution of curriculum and a radically new role for the high school and the high school teacher. The rise of technological and urban society within the context of American middle-class ideology has been a fundamental cause of this transformation.read more
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Mass Secondary Schooling and the State
TL;DR: In the three decades from 1910 to 1940, the fraction of U.S. youths enrolled in public and private secondary schools increased from 18 to 71 percent and the fraction graduating soared from 9 to 51 percent as mentioned in this paper.
The Public Purposes of Public Education: The Evolution of Community-Centered Schooling at Benjamin Franklin High School, 1934-1944
TL;DR: Benjamin Franklin High School in East Harlem as discussed by the authors was a leader in urban education and pioneered a distinctive community-centered schooling, which was based on solving real community problems in order to prepare students for leadership and civic participation.
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From Universalism to Usurpation: An Essay on the Antecedents to Compulsory School Attendance Legislation
TL;DR: The Yoder case as mentioned in this paper established the right of the Amish in Wisconsin not to send their children to school beyond the eighth grade, tested compulsion in the policy arena via the free exercise clause of the First Amendment, and cautioned that the court's decision should not be construed as opening the door to a flood of petitions against compulsory education per se.
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Do Schooling Laws Matter? Evidence from the Introduction of Compulsory Attendance Laws in the United States. NBER Working Paper No. 18477.
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Selecting Children For Special Education In New York City: William Maxwell, Elizabeth Farrell, And The Development Of Ungraded Classes, 1900-1920
TL;DR: The efforts of Farrell and City Superintendent of Schools William Henry Maxwell to establish ungraded classes in New York City between 1900 and 1920 as mentioned in this paper were a successful one, but it also included struggles to find and train qualified teachers, correctly identify children to be served, provide ample classroom space, and do all of that in a fair and equitable manner.
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