The Encyclopedia Americana; A Library of Universal Knowledge Volume 24

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ... is secured both in school and on the job thus permitting the employment of a constant teaching force and a constant working force. The special school organized and conducted by business concerns aims more particularly to give to the employees of the concern such instruction as will render them more efficient in the particular work which they are called upon to do. Such schools are of more recent development and are increasing in number. In these schools the usual procedure is to combine in each day's work some hours of instruction and some hours devoted to the regular occupation. The special schools conducted by the New York Central Railroad and by the Wanamaker stores are well-known examples of this sort of organization. In some of the States, notably in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, statutes provide that children between 14 and 16 not in regular attendance at day schools, whether at work or not, must attend continuation classes for certain hours each week, and if such children are employed they must be released from employment during these hours, and the laws in these States also provide that schools must be established and maintained under public instruction and control for this purpose. Movements in several other States are already under way looking toward the enactment of similar laws. It is evident that the time is not far distant when provision will be made for the compulsory attendance upon some form of continuation school for all children up to 18 years of age who are not regularly in day schools, whether such children are employed or not, and that schools providing the opportunity for instruction of such children especially along vocational lines will become a part of the regular educational system of the country and will be...