"The Hometown school has a fine 

 building and an undifferentiated cur- 

 riculum so that the same high school 

 education is available to all the chil- 

 dren, whether they have college am- 

 bitions or not. In Hometown, 80 

 percent of the boys and girls of high 

 school age attend high school. Why 

 do they go? What do they and their 

 parents expect from a high school 

 education? 



"First of all, no upper-upper class 

 family has children in high school. 

 The lower-uppers and upper-middles 

 account for about the same propor- 

 tions of pupils as one would expect 

 from their proportions in the total 

 population. The lower-middles con- 

 tribute less than one would expect 

 and the upper-lower and lower-lower 

 contribute more, probably because 



the lower-class people have larger 

 families and therefore, more prospec- 

 tive pupils. 



"Of all high school students classi- 

 fied as lower-upper or upper-middle, 

 88 percent will go on to college while 

 only 12 percent of those in the three 

 bottom classes expect to go to col- 

 lege. Of the total high school pupils, 

 20 percent are preparing to go to 

 college and 80 percent were definitely 

 not going to college" (p. 66). 



"The generalization that different 

 curricula and types of institutions are 

 adapted to different statuses is illus- 

 trated by Goetsch's study. She found 

 that the hierarchv of family income 

 was reflected in a hierarchy of courses 

 pursued by students in higher in- 

 stitutions, as shown in Table VI" 

 (p. 72). 



"Table VI: Parental Income and College Courses 



Median 

 Curriculum: parental income 



Law .._.. $2, 1 1 8 



Medicine and Dentistry 2,1 12 



Liberal Arts 2,068 



Journalism 1,907 



Engineering 1,884 



Teaching 1 , 5 70 



Commercial 1,543 



Nursing 1,368 



Industrial Trades 1 , 1 04 



— Who Shall Be Educated: The 

 Challenge of Unequal Opportunities, 

 by W. Lloyd Warner, Robert J. 

 Havighurst, Martin B. Loeb. Harper 

 & Bros., New York City, 1944. 



"The findings of this study, in har- 

 mony with the findings of other 

 studies, show that approximately as 

 many of the ablest high school gradu- 

 ates are out of college as are in 

 college. 



"On the basis of the sample (of 

 1,754 cases), the upper quarter of 



the State's 16,000 high school gradu- 

 ates would contain a minimum of 

 4,000 of the ablest individuals, the 

 type of students who really do well 

 in college. Forty-nine percent of 

 4,000 is 1,960 individuals with high 

 potential college ability, who for 

 some reason or reasons, did not enroll 

 in college. From the point of view 

 of the colleges, as well as of the in- 

 dividuals and of society, the loss in 

 human resources indicated in these 

 data is highly significant. 



"Table 8 shows that for every four 



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