What Should Our High School Students Study?
This brief provides background on landmark movements in education that have led to the requirements that students face today and highlights key questions to explore with new data.
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This brief provides background on landmark movements in education that have led to the requirements that students face today and highlights key questions to explore with new data.
This article has been produced in partnership between The 74 and the XQ Institute. In 1906, the Carnegie Unit, or credit hour, was introduced to standardize U.S. public education. It defined the precise number of minutes students needed to learn a particular subject and the number of “credit hours” required to earn a high school […]
In the early 1900s, the nation’s civic leaders launched a full court press to make secondary education — previously offered to an elite few — available to the many. They compelled communities to build high schools and sought to convince the populace that a diploma was their ticket out of a life of hard labor, as […]
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