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“GUIDANCE Programs for Rural High Schools”, by Mr. Paul Chapman (Washington, D.C. 10 cents), is a bulletin belonging to the ‘Occupational and Guidance Service’ established by the U.S. Office of Education in response to a widespread demand. It has been revised after critical comment on a limited edition and shows once more the great elaboration of American education. High schools in rural districts have comparatively few pupils; but, as the foreword points out, they are important for society as a whole, because “no large city in our Nation is producing enough children to maintain its population”. Local conditions impose differences of training and the two models noticed in detail from New York State are much larger than the average rural school. But one of them is described as “basically agricultural” and both can supply selections of things worth doing. All schools of the sort can go in for “occupational information, the personal inventory, counselling, exploration, use of training facilities, placement, and follow-up”. This last word means close attention to pupils after they have left school.
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Fitting Schoolboys for the World of Work. Nature 146, 743 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146743b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/146743b0