Discover the wartime view of a pivotal moment in education
This non-fiction work compiles North Carolina’s public high school statistics, progress reports, and official remarks from 1917–1918. It includes a foreword by James Yadkin Joyner and shows how schools responded to war, enrollment trends, and ideas for shaping a coordinated, six-month term across districts. The material sheds light on how educators navigated shortages, standards, and the push to strengthen high school work as part of the wider public school system.
The book presents practical data, official letters, and summary tables that map school programs, enrollments, and apportionments. It offers a window into the challenges and decisions that guided high school development during a year of national upheaval, while outlining proposals for funding and governance that would influence decades to come. Ideal for readers interested in education history, policy, and the North Carolina school system’s evolution.
- Details about individual high schools, enrollments, and the terms offered in 1917–1918
- Foreword discussing wartime impacts on staff, standards, and student outcomes
- Analysis of state and county funding, and how policy changes could reshape funding
- Historical context for how high schools were integrated into the broader public school system
Ideal for readers of education history, policy analysis, and North Carolina archival material.