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The high school movement is a term used in educational history literature to describe the era from 1910 to 1940 during which secondary schools as well as secondary school attendance sprouted across the United States. During the early part of the 20th century, American youth entered high schools at a rapid rate, mainly due to the building of new ...
From 1910 to 1940, high schools grew in number and size, reaching out to a broader clientele. In 1910, for example, 9% of Americans had a high school diploma; in 1935, the rate was 40%. [194] By 1940, the number had increased to 50%. [195] This phenomenon was uniquely American; no other nation attempted such widespread coverage.
Between 1910 and 1940, the high school movement resulted in rapidly increasing founding of public high schools in many cities and towns and later with further expansions in each locality with the establishment of neighborhood, district, or community high schools in the larger cities which may have had one or two schools since the 19th century ...
The common school movement also advocated for the right of girls to attend public schools—the first co-educational high school in America only opened in 1840—which became widespread by the 1870s.
An integrated classroom in Anacostia High School, Washington, D.C., in 1957. In the United States, school integration (also known as desegregation) is the process of ending race-based segregation within American public and private schools.
When the 101-year-old was honored by Cleveland Heights High School, he asked the Chiefs’ Travis Kelce, a fellow alum, for Taylor Swift’s autograph.
Fighting Uncle Sam, by artist N. C. Wyeth was shipped to all junior and senior high schools in the fall of 1942. Each school received a 30-by-40-inch (76 cm × 102 cm) poster and 10 in × 13 in (25 cm × 33 cm) copies for every classroom. [24]: 34 Posters produced under the combat art program for Schools at War include: [25]
Red Bank High School began as an extension to the one-year-old Red Bank Junior High School in 1938. Recognizing that the original plans for the school serving grades 7, 8, and 9 were not fulfilling the needs of the Red Bank community and surrounding areas, the Hamilton County Board of Education added a 10th grade in 1938, an 11th grade in 1939, and finally a 12th grade in 1940.