Book/Printed Material Self-supporting students in certain New York city high schools,
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Image 41 of Self-supporting students in certain New York city high schools, for money ten hours or more per week report 18 visits to the theater or moving picture show during the week studied and 14 during the last three days of the week…
- Contributor: Pettit, Walter William
- Date: 1920
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Image 42 of Self-supporting students in certain New York city high schools, By far the most common way of securing a position is by reliance on ones friends Thirtyseven boys checked asked friends as the means they had used in trying to secure a…
- Contributor: Pettit, Walter William
- Date: 1920
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Image 43 of Self-supporting students in certain New York city high schools, The boys who report working in stores often mean doing odd jobs clerking during the rush hours running errands sweeping etc Some of the boys are working as regular clerks in the…
- Contributor: Pettit, Walter William
- Date: 1920
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Image 44 of Self-supporting students in certain New York city high schools, place cards one had earned a prize through writing a composition and the other through delivering a suffrage speech The Students Future PlansThe students who areworking for wages are fitting into the…
- Contributor: Pettit, Walter William
- Date: 1920
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Image 45 of Self-supporting students in certain New York city high schools, A comparison of the plans of the students who are working with those who are not working shows no difference in the proportion going to college The fact that a boy is…
- Contributor: Pettit, Walter William
- Date: 1920
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Image 46 of Self-supporting students in certain New York city high schools, There were however 42 boys who indicated that they felt that outside work while in school was of no help to them in the work they looked forward to as a life…
- Contributor: Pettit, Walter William
- Date: 1920
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Image 47 of Self-supporting students in certain New York city high schools, Summary The chances that a student in De Witt Clinton High School is working for money are between one in three and one in two If he has no remunerative position the…
- Contributor: Pettit, Walter William
- Date: 1920
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Image 48 of Self-supporting students in certain New York city high schools, CHAPTER III THE SCHOOL AND THE SELFSUPPORTING BOY The immediate task before the school regarding the working boy is to determine whether hecan or cannot do his school work To some of…
- Contributor: Pettit, Walter William
- Date: 1920
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Image 49 of Self-supporting students in certain New York city high schools, boys neglected to state their marks and the permanent record cards of others were not to be found There were however 122 students who reported and whose cards were examined to test…
- Contributor: Pettit, Walter William
- Date: 1920
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- Contributor: Pettit, Walter William
- Date: 1920
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Image 51 of Self-supporting students in certain New York city high schools, better in fact except for the group working more than twenty hours a week for more than twenty school weeks a year The data for the small group of 70 if used…
- Contributor: Pettit, Walter William
- Date: 1920
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Image 52 of Self-supporting students in certain New York city high schools, Elimination of Working Boys In order to determine whether there was more elimination from school in the group of boys who work than in the group who do not work two groups…
- Contributor: Pettit, Walter William
- Date: 1920
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Image 53 of Self-supporting students in certain New York city high schools, The next step was to find whether these boys were still in attendance in February 1916 a year after the first investigation had been made The records at De Witt Clinton High…
- Contributor: Pettit, Walter William
- Date: 1920
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Image 54 of Self-supporting students in certain New York city high schools, In Eastern District too there would seem to be a larger elimination from the working group than from the group that is not at work It is probable that several factors enter…
- Contributor: Pettit, Walter William
- Date: 1920
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Image 55 of Self-supporting students in certain New York city high schools, In ONE SEMESTER NUMBER OF TIMES Absent Tardy Average Median Average Size of Group BaVvorking boys 72 i 112 49 Nonworking boys 666 6 U7 53 Of the working hore those With…
- Contributor: Pettit, Walter William
- Date: 1920
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Image 56 of Self-supporting students in certain New York city high schools, CHAPTER IV COOPERATIVE WORK By cooperative work is meant the system at present in operation in a number of the New York City high schools by which certain students who are taking…
- Contributor: Pettit, Walter William
- Date: 1920
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Image 57 of Self-supporting students in certain New York city high schools, Tt was with these statements in mind that an investigation was made of the boys and girls in certain cooperative classes in New York City This part of the study needs however…
- Contributor: Pettit, Walter William
- Date: 1920
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Image 58 of Self-supporting students in certain New York city high schools, In this case the person marking realized that a new system was being tried He was predisposed frequently to favor or oppose the system Therefore even less reliability may be placed on…
- Contributor: Pettit, Walter William
- Date: 1920
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Image 59 of Self-supporting students in certain New York city high schools, work For both there is a curtailment of home study The self supporting student the chief interest of this investigation has even more time for school work as a rule than the…
- Contributor: Pettit, Walter William
- Date: 1920
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Image 60 of Self-supporting students in certain New York city high schools, halftime school work in the cooperative system In Washington Irving High School 140 girls in the German commercial course were studied 60 of whom were giving every other week to office work…
- Contributor: Pettit, Walter William
- Date: 1920
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Image 61 of Self-supporting students in certain New York city high schools, COMMERCIAL ENGLISH BOOKKEEPING STENOGRAPHY TYPEWRITING GupeusrEe AND AW Non Non Non Non coops Coops coops Coops coops Coops coops Coops coops Coops 48 17 30 46 57 68 48 34 42 34…
- Contributor: Pettit, Walter William
- Date: 1920
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Image 62 of Self-supporting students in certain New York city high schools, This is true in both the first and second table The coordinator in Bushwick High School who is in charge of the cooperative work explains the results as due to the fact…
- Contributor: Pettit, Walter William
- Date: 1920
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Image 63 of Self-supporting students in certain New York city high schools, to do cooperative work and thus become in part selfsupporting The first of these three grounds for selecting cooperative students is the one least emphasized In Bushwick High School students who were…
- Contributor: Pettit, Walter William
- Date: 1920
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Image 64 of Self-supporting students in certain New York city high schools, clerical group was not receiving wages for its work In this course part of the students were giving full time to school work and part were giving half time There were 80…
- Contributor: Pettit, Walter William
- Date: 1920
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Image 65 of Self-supporting students in certain New York city high schools, TABLE II PERCENTAGE OF STUDENTS IN EACH SUBJECT IN THE GERMAN COMMERCIAL COURSE JUNE 1915 RECEIVING A GRADE BELOW 70 70 TO 80 ABOVE 80 ENGLISH GERMAN BOOKKEEPING SIEM OGRAEE TS Coop…
- Contributor: Pettit, Walter William
- Date: 1920
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Image 66 of Self-supporting students in certain New York city high schools, TABLE IIIAVERAGE OF GRADES FOR JUNE 1915 GERMAN COMMERCIAL COURSE WASHINGTON IRVING HIGH SCHOOL Numbers without lineGirls who later became cooperatives Numbers with line beneathNoncooperatives 70 70 70 70 70 71 80…
- Contributor: Pettit, Walter William
- Date: 1920
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Image 67 of Self-supporting students in certain New York city high schools, grade or a lower grade than the previous semester was noted Inthe following table Table IV the per cent of the class receiving a lower grade the same grade or a higher…
- Contributor: Pettit, Walter William
- Date: 1920
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Image 68 of Self-supporting students in certain New York city high schools, of them are lowest in the averages secured There are more marks below 60 for girls on fulltime work while but one mark below 60 is given to a girl on halftime…
- Contributor: Pettit, Walter William
- Date: 1920
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Image 69 of Self-supporting students in certain New York city high schools, High School is concerned there is a tendency on the part of the co operative girls to do little school work meriting either exceptionally high or exceptionally low grades Summary The marks…
- Contributor: Pettit, Walter William
- Date: 1920
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Image 70 of Self-supporting students in certain New York city high schools, CHAPTER V THE HIGH SCHOOL AND THE STUDENT WHO MUST WORK That some high schools are aware of the number of students who are partially or wholly selfsupporting is shown by the…
- Contributor: Pettit, Walter William
- Date: 1920
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Image 71 of Self-supporting students in certain New York city high schools, tions are asked as to whether the employe is to eat with the family number of hours required on school days Saturdays and Sundays religion arrangements for outdoor exercise and the kind…
- Contributor: Pettit, Walter William
- Date: 1920
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Image 72 of Self-supporting students in certain New York city high schools, When a boy comes to the office and states that he wants to apply for the position he is given a card of introduction to the firm and to this card is…
- Contributor: Pettit, Walter William
- Date: 1920
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Image 73 of Self-supporting students in certain New York city high schools, most the welfare of the boy to be considered Some of the positions which high school boys are filling are positions in which they earn less than they should for the amount…
- Contributor: Pettit, Walter William
- Date: 1920
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Image 74 of Self-supporting students in certain New York city high schools, are working long hours and are earning very low wages the school should advise a change in work From the standpoint of the boy there is also the necessity for placing him…
- Contributor: Pettit, Walter William
- Date: 1920
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Image 75 of Self-supporting students in certain New York city high schools, considerations He has a right to expect that the school will send him a student who is really interested in working He has a right to expect that the boy will give…
- Contributor: Pettit, Walter William
- Date: 1920
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Image 76 of Self-supporting students in certain New York city high schools, or woman in a high school be devoted to the work with such assist ance as might be needed He would have the child the family the teacher and the employer to…
- Contributor: Pettit, Walter William
- Date: 1920
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Image 77 of Self-supporting students in certain New York city high schools, movement to centralize the work with selfsupporting students in all the high schools of the city This office already has established the necessary relations with industrial and commercial establishments for the placing…
- Contributor: Pettit, Walter William
- Date: 1920
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Image 78 of Self-supporting students in certain New York city high schools, sympathetic intelligent treatment of the problem of selfsupport Assurance could be given that a position offered to a student was with a reliable firm where there would be fair treatment and no…
- Contributor: Pettit, Walter William
- Date: 1920
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Image 79 of Self-supporting students in certain New York city high schools, CHAPTER VI SCHOLARSHIPS The problem of the large number of high school students who are em ployed in parttime work is not solved by the development of em ployment offices in high…
- Contributor: Pettit, Walter William
- Date: 1920
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Image 80 of Self-supporting students in certain New York city high schools, spite of great handicaps in many cases and were the student free to devote all his time to his studies it might well be that his school work would be greatly improved…
- Contributor: Pettit, Walter William
- Date: 1920
About this Item
Title
- Self-supporting students in certain New York city high schools,
Names
- Pettit, Walter William, 1882-
Created / Published
- New York, The New York school of social work, 1920.
Headings
- - Students--New York (State)--New York
- - Public schools--New York (State)--New York
Notes
- - Published also as thesis (Ph. D.) Columbia university, 1918.
- - Also available in digital form.
Medium
- 87 p. 23 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- LB3611 .P4 1920
Library of Congress Control Number
- 20006651
OCLC Number
- 5470861
Online Format
- online text
- image