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Putting this in context, I'm sure the gross overall level of education for teenagers in the early 20th century was higher than it is now. Education was far les
by dylangs1030 13y ago
Putting this in context, I'm sure the gross overall level of education for teenagers in the early 20th century was higher than it is now.
Education was far less prevalent for minority groups, who, as an unfortunate side effect to class-wide limited incomes, don't have the same access to the kind of education which would give this sort of examination to an 8th grader.
Now, if you attend a private grammar school in a Westchester suburb you can expect a lot of your children will have exams like this...
- jmduke 13y agoHow do you define 'level of education' on a per-student basis? (Well, I guess the whole issue is that that's hard a question to answer, right?) I think, for instance, that the average eighth grader knows much more in 2013 than they did in 1912, but that the proportion of that knowledge that they gained from an education system is much smaller. Knowledge has become universally accessible; reasoning, less so.
- a3voices 13y agoI think you're wrong about the gross overall education of teenagers. >Progressively fewer adults have limited their education to completion of the 8th grade which was typical in the early part of the century. In 1940, more than half of the U.S. population had completed no more than an eighth grade education. http://nces.ed.gov/naal/lit_history.asp http://nces.ed.gov/naal/lit_history.asp
- whatusername 13y agoI think you missed the "who were in schools at the 8th grade level" qualifier in your post.