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An Investigation Of The Status, Functions, And Practices Of High School Homerooms In Virginia, Anne Hill Hayes
An Investigation Of The Status, Functions, And Practices Of High School Homerooms In Virginia, Anne Hill Hayes
Master's Theses
No data have been discovered determining exactly why or when the first homeroom originated. In a study by Galen Jones published in 1935, it was reported that there were two homerooms introduced between 1875-1879; two in the period 1900-1904; three, in 1905-1909; and nine in the period from 1910-1914. From then on the growth was rapid.
The homeroom appeared and developed with amazing rapidity because it seemed to offer a solution to the strong demand for a type of education which would include proper emphasis upon important physical, social, emotional, and spiritual factors largely ignored in traditional instruction.
Since its …