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Download full textPeng, Samuel S. – National Center for Education Statistics, 1981
The report is based upon base-year data collected in "High School and Beyond," NCES's national longitudinal survey of sophomores and seniors in spring 1980. Gainful employment is prevalent among high school youth. During the week prior to the spring 1980 survey, 63.2 percent of the seniors and 42.1 percent of the sophomores had been…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, High School Students, Gender Differences, Minority Group Students
Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1921
The traditional secondary school limited its instruction to full time pupils. Rather than adapt the kind and amount of work to the necessities of the pupil who cannot attend full time, it apparently preferred to have him leave school altogether. While frowning upon an elective system within the school, it felt no qualms in allowing the great…
Descriptors: Educational History, High School Students, Secondary Education, Administrative Organization
