Ontario Secondary School Program Innovations and Student A Report to the Ontario Study of the Relevance of Education and the Issue of Dropouts. Student Retention and Transition Series [microform] / Robert M. Stamp.
The time period between the early 1920s and the early 1970s witnessed increases in high school retention rates within Ontario's publicly-supported education system. These increases are attributed both to program changes within the system and to societal factors external to that system. Retentio...
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| Summary: | The time period between the early 1920s and the early 1970s witnessed increases in high school retention rates within Ontario's publicly-supported education system. These increases are attributed both to program changes within the system and to societal factors external to that system. Retention rates increased slowly during the 1920s, as minor changes in the Ontario secondary school curriculum at the beginning of had minimum impact. Retention rates fell during the beginning of the 1930s, then increased later in the decade, probably due to the economic depression of the time. Armed forces enlistment and war-generated industrial work resulted in a decrease in retention rates during the first part of the 1940s. The increase in retention rates during the latter part of the 1940s is attributed to improved high school facilities in rural Ontario and to rising educational expectations in the post-war world. Retention rates showed steady increases during the 1950s, probably a result of rising societal and economic expectations. High school program changes brought about by the federal government's Technical and Vocational Training Assistance Act and the provincial Department of Education's Reorganized Program of Studies resulted in steady increases in retention rates in the 1960s. Steady increases through the early 1970s are attributed to the introduction of the "credit" system, the spread of French-language secondary schools, and further improvements in rural education. (This report examines each decade separately and looks at retention rate differences by gender, rural and urban schools, and academic and vocational programs for each decade.) (Author/NB) |
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| Item Description: | Availability: MGS Publications Services, 5th Floor, 880 Bay Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M7A1N8 ($6.00 Canadian). Contract Number: 1084-ON04525. ERIC Note: For the other reports in this series, see CG 021 107-109. ERIC Document Number: ED298426. |
| Physical Description: | 109 pages. |
| ISBN: | 9780772931702 : 0772931704 : |
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