Book Description

In 1909-10, the junior high school appeared in America as a deliberately planned unit of our public-school system. The idea developed slowly, and then WWI checked its progress almost completely. Now it is estimated there are more than 2,500 such schools in the United States. In this book Dr. Koos addresses the conditions that produced the junior high school, and lists its peculiar functions--the most important of which are a democratic school system, the recognition of the nature of adolescence, provision for better teaching, the securing of better scholarship, and improvement of the disciplinary situation and the socializing opportunities. The book is a real contribution to the literature of the junior high school. It should be studied by all who are concerned with the development or the ad- ministration of this new type of school organization.