The Relationship Between Persistence in School and Home Conditions (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book The Relationship Between Persistence in School and Home Conditions (Classic Reprint) written by Charles Elmer Holley and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-21 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Relationship Between Persistence in School and Home Conditions In this part Of the Fifteenth Yearbook Dr. C. E. Holley presents the results of a direct investigation on a fairly comprehensive scale of the important question: What factors determine the number of years Of schooling received by pupils of the public schools? The investigation was carried on in several Illinois cities; the results are doubtless typical for the Middle West, if not for the country generally. It will be noted that the outcome of the study coincides in some respects With beliefs current in educational circles, but contradicts those beliefs in other respects. A close correlation is discovered between years of schooling and the economic, social, and educational advantages of the homes from which the pupils come, and these environmental conditions appear to be more important than degree Of native ability in determining amount of schooling. Retardation and truancy are most frequent among the children of poor and uneducated parents. Size of family, however, has no appreciable effect on persistence in school. Of particular interest to schoolmen IS the demonstration that early elimination is largely due to external factors over which the school has little or no control. The selected bibliography on elimination and related issues found at the end Of the text will, it is hoped, be useful to readers Of the Yearbook. 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.