University High School - U Highlights Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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Each administration has been characterized in some measure by the speclal educational views and interests of the administration in charge ln general the University High School has served as a center for experimentation The term laboratory school which was first used by Professor lohn Dewey expresses clearly the purpose of the school The curriculum of secondary education is here to be worked out under conditions which are unusual y favorable and ts to be made available for the high schools of the country through the publication of text books Conspicuous examples of contributions in this line are the books published in mathematics French social studies and natural science The school is a center of experimentation in administrative organization The elimination of the eighth grade from the University Elementary School examples of administrative experimentation The fusion of the upper years of the University High School with the first two years of the College is th important experiment now unaer way The University High School is now as it was in the days when it was organized by President Harper the expression of a conviction that the American educational system must be developed as a continuous unit The University regards the school as a laboratory where under the best condi tions which can be provided a well chosen and productive faculty can contribute to the improvement of secondary education throughout the United States The University High School is part of a system which extends from the Nursery School to the Graduate School lt is in process of adiusting itself to the schools below and to the College and University above in a way which can be imitated by other instiutions in all parts of the country l I - - A - 1 and the transfer of the seventh grade to the University High School are early Sfxlrtrz

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