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Enrollment Trends In Foreign Languages In The Public And The Private Secondary Schools Of The United States, Dorothea Meyer

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

The trends in enrollment in foreign language in public and private secondary schools of the United States have been determined by answers to the following questions:

1. What changes have occurred in enrollment in foreign language in the various states?

2. Are these changes constant from one geographical division to the other?

The Place Of Private And Church Schools In The Education Of The State, Anna Elizabeth Falls

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

In considering the relation of the private, parochial and denominational schools to the education of the State, it is well to bear in mind Sargent's statement that in that last analysis there is no such thing as a private school; that all schools are doing a public work, the work of the community in educating prospective citizens. It is this fact, that education in our American democracy has for its aim the making of a progressive and stable nation through efficiently trained citizens, each in his individual capacity and through his individual interests, that makes the problem of education difficult …