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Title: Mass Secondary Schooling and the State The Role of State Compulsion in the High School Movement

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Publication Year: 2008

ISBN: 0-226-11634-4

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Abstract: From 1910 to 1940, a period known in U.S. educational history as the high school movement, the fraction of youths enrolled in public and private U.S. secondary schools increased from 18 to 71 percent. The fraction graduating nationwide soared from 9 to 51 percent (see fi gure 9.1) and the increase was even greater in most northern and western states (see fi gure 9.2 for U.S. regional data). Such increases are as large as those achieved in the recent histories of nations undergoing the most rapid of transitions to mass secondary schooling. In South Korea, for example, the fraction graduating from upper secondary school increased from 25 percent to 88 percent in the three decades from 1954 to 1984.

Url: https://www.nber.org/chapters/c12002.pdf

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Authors: Goldin, Claudia, L; Katz, Lawrence, F

Editors: Costa, Dora; Lamoreaux, Naomi

Pages: 275 - 310

Volume Title: Understanding Long-Run Economic Growth: Geography, Institutions, and the Knowledge Economy

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Education, Other

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