The curriculum for high schools before the 1940s was highly disorganized and variable. Student bodies of every race, cultural background, and religion defied singular, unified curricular planning. Although every state by law compelled attendance in high school through the age of sixteen, depending upon the state in which one lived, education could be rigorously academic, insufficiently academic, or fundamentally vocational. In 1941 high schools nationally offered no fewer than 274 subjects, although only 59 of these were traditional academic courses. During the New Deal, moreover, educators.....
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