PS276 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: University-Preparatory School
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Virtually all young people ages 14-17 are enrolled in school. Adolescent school year lasts much longer today, and they remain in school for more years. Rise of secondary education was result of industrialization, urbanization, and immigration. Result of child protection but also to ensure job security for older population. Social reformers envisioned education as a means of improving life circumstances of poor and working classes. School as means of social control; high school put idle young peple where they can be supervised. Also a way to make foreign born immigrants socialized to american way of life. Comprehensive high schools promised to meet needs of diverse/growing population of young people. Classes in general education, college prep, and vocational education all housed under one roof. Schools are important tools of social interventionl greatest number of young people can most easily be reached through it.
