The Junior High School: A Changing View

Abstract

the departmentalized program of the high school with its relatively greater emphasis on subjects and specialization. These differ ences are becoming much less sharp, how ever, as subjects are once again being pushed downward, as departmentalization of vari ous sorts is again spreading in the elemen tary grades, and as vertical curriculum plan ning in the major subjects makes more progress. That is, there are the distinct signs, commented on in Professor Broudy's paper and elsewhere, that the differences between the last years of the elementary school and the first ones of the high school—junior, senior, 4-year, or 6-year—are not nearly so severe and distinct as a decade ago, or indeed as many feel they should be. However needed a transition is