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Excerpt from Causes of the Elimination of Students in Public Secondary Schools of New York City
With the growth of public high schools in the United States, there has arisen a situation which, so far, has found no satisfactory explanation. In almost every city where high schools have been established, the entering classes have tasked the accommodations of the high school to the utmost. The number of pupils, however, who complete the course, is, when compared with the number which entered, so small as to excite surprise. To account for the dropping out of pupils, who enter apparently with the intention of completing the entire course, many hypotheses have been advanced. In only the last two or three years, however, has any attempt been made to make a statistical study of this elimination. Many of these investigations, moreover, have been made under conditions, which, at the very outset, have been so open to charges of prejudice that the results have proved of little value to the students of this perplexing problem. One of the chief reasons why previous investigations have proved inadequate is the fact that few, if any, investigators have attempted to limit themselves to the study of objective phenomena. In most cases, the questionaire method has been followed, and there have been gathered many interesting opinions; each, however, showing the personal bias of the individual answering the questions and all based on such doubtful and nebulous data, that, while each may have the appearance of reasonableness, still each lacks the evidence necessary for its establishment as truly trustworthy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
