REFERENCES:
1. _Annual Report of United States Commissioner of Education for 1917._
2. Josslyn, H.W. Chapter IV, in Johnson's _Modern High School_.
3. _The Money Value of Education._ Bulletin No. 22, 1917, United States
Bureau of Education.
4. New York and New Jersey _State School Reports for 1917_.
CHAPTER II
HOW EXTENSIVE ARE THE FAILURES OF THE HIGH SCHOOL PUPILS?
1. A DISTRIBUTION OF ALL ENTRANTS IN REFERENCE TO FAILURE
With no purpose of making this a comparative study of schools, the
separate units or schools indicated in Chapter I will from this point
be combined into a composite and treated as a single group. It becomes
possible, with the complete and tabulated facts pertaining to a group
of pupils, after their high school period has ended, to get a
comprehensive survey of their school records and to answer such
questions as: (1) What part of the total number of boys or of girls
have school failures? (2) To what extent are the non-failing pupils the
ones who succeed in graduating? (3) To what extent do the failing
pupils withdraw early? The following tabulation will show how two of
these questions are answered for the 6,141 pupils here reported on.
ALL ALL
ENTRANTS FAILING GRADUATES FAILING
Totals 6,141 3,573 (58.2%) 1,936 1,125 (58.1%)
Boys 2,646 1,645 (62.1%) 796 489 (61.
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