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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR BUREAU OF EDUCATION BULLETIN, 1922, No. II ACCREDITED SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN THE UNITED STATES By GEORGE F. ZOOK SPEcIAUST IN HIGHER EDUCATION BUREAU OF EDUCATION -yaistarzsi GOVERNMtNT PRINTING OFPICE 1.922 BULLETIN OF TILE BUREAU OF EDUCATION FOR 1922. No.1. Recent State legislation for physical education. W. S. Small, No.2. Administration of schools in the smaller cities. W. S. Deffenhaugh. No.3. Preparation of teachers of-the social studies for the secvdary schools.Edgar Dawson. to.4. Statistics of private commercial and business schools, H. R. Bonner. Ad- NAACO sheets from the Biennial survey, 1918-1920. No.5. Reorganizafon.,of home economics in secondary schools.A report of the commission on the reorganization of secondary education. No.6. State policies in "public school finance.Fletcher 11. Swift. No.7. Report on the higher educational institutions of Arkansas. No.8. Statistics of teachers' colleges and normal schools.II. R. Bonner. Ad- varce sheets from the Biennial survey, 1918-1920. No.9. Statistics of privr.te high schools and academies, 1919-20.II.It. Bois, Advance sheets from the Biennial survey, 1918,4920. No. 10. Supervision of rural schoOls.Katherine M. Cook. No. 11. Accredited secondary schools in the United States.G. F. Zook. No. 12. Dormitories in connection with public secondary schools.Edith A. Lathrop. N9. 13. Review of educational legislation, 1919 and 1920.Wm. It. Hood. No: 14. Status of sex education in tho high schools.Newell Wit &l on. No, 15. A kindergarten first-grade curriculum. No. 16. The district owned or controlled teachers' home. John C. Muerman. No. 17. Statistics of city school systerna, 1919 -20.H. R. Bonner.Advance sheets from the Biennial survey, 1918-1920. No. 18. The residence of students in institutions of higher learning.G. F. Zook. No. 19. National conference of junior colleges, 1920.G. F. Zook. No. 20. State laws relating to 9ducation, 1920-21. Wm. R. Hood. No, 21. Record of current educational publications, May 15, 1922. No. 22. Statistics Of kindorgartens, 19111 -20. H. R. Bonner.Advance sheets from the Biennial survey, 1918-1920. No. 23. High school buildings and grounk A report of the commission on the reorganization of secondary education. No: 24. The school janitnf: A study of the functions and administration of school janitor service.J. A. Garber. No. 2b. Higher education in Australia and New Zealand,Charles F. Thwing. :No. 26. Philanthropy in the history of American higher educatioq.Jesse B. Soars. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR BUREAU OF EDUCATION BULLETIN, 1922, No II ACCREDITED SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN THE UNITED STATES By GEORGE F. ZOOK SPECIAUST IN HIGHER EDUCATION BUREAU OF EDUCATION WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1922 C ADDITIONAL COPIrs OF TEIS PUBLICATION MAT BE PROCURED FROM THE SUPERINTENDENT OF DOCUMENTS GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D. C. AT 10 CENTS PER COPY t4 I r -CONTENTS. PagP. Letter of transmittal......... ............. ......... ................ 5 Accredited secondary schools defined. Unit defint:d. Variations in requirements of accrediting agencies............ 8 Methods of accrediting. 9 Part 1.State lists 10 Part 2. Lists of schools accredited by various associations. 80 Commission of the Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools of the Southern States 80 New England College Entrangp Certificate Board..... ....... : ...... 84 North Central Avociation of Colleges and Secondary Schools.... 88 3 V LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL. IEPARTMENT OF TILE INTERIOR, BUREAU OF EDUCATIkN, . WashingtOn, D. C. IR: Many students apply for admission to -higher institutionsin otheStateS and sections than those in whichthey have received their h-school preparation. Many also seek.certificates fiom exam- ining anlicensing _boards, which haveno direct means of knowing the standa i is of the schools fromwhich. the applicants cope.The demand .foris information led the Bureau ofEducation in 1913 to undertake the collection and preparation of listsof high: schools and -academies accredited-by Sate universitikapproved by State departments of education, or recognized byexamining and certifi- cating boards and by certain- other agencies,.The demand proved to be even greatv than had been anticipated.The first edition Of . the bulletin containing the listswas soon exhausted:In order to meet further demands for this information and alsoto bring the lists up to date, second and third editions of the .pamphletwere issued; in 1914 and 1916, respectIvely., The lastedition has long been exhausted.I have therelure requeste&Dr. George F.Zook, special- ist in higher education in the bureau,to revise the pamphlet again. The revision is contained in the accompanyingmanuscript, which 1 recommend for publication asa bulletin bf the Bureau of Education. - Respectfully submitted. JNO. J. TIOERT, Cumin.issioner. The SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR, c. , 5 . ACCREDITED SECONDARYSCHOOLS- IN -TIE UNITED STATES. The lists of aecredited secondary schoolswhich are preeented now for the fourth time in this bulletin are .lesigtA41 tomeet the needs of officers chanzed with the ad1iis- sim1 of new students to secondary schools,Collegee, uni%ersitiee, professional schools (especially-sho)ls of law and medicine', normalschools, et.; of State examining "and certifying boards, whichan; concerned with the status of secondary schools located at a distance: and of parents whomay want to know alert the high schools of any particular State otieection, The first ittme of the bulletin waS purdishod in1913.The introduction to the second bulletin, published in 1915, calle' at tentien . to the fact that the great annual increase in the number of secondary schools In 1911. ' 12 there were 13,265, in 191S-16. t henum- her had grown to 1-1,206: in 1917-:S.ii.reached 16,0991, together with theaudden changes in standing, generally for the better ofmany secondary schools in all parts of :the Country, make frequent revisions of thelists desinible.It was therefore the purpose of the 111n ...,u of Education to revise the bulletin everytwo years, but on ace aunt of the many other pressing matters engaging theattention of the petwotur responsible for the preparation of the 'bulletin duringand immoliately fallowing the war.'il was not pokble to carry out thispurpose, and the present revision is the first which has been male since 1916. The lists here presented showmany chariges in the way of schools added to or drop- poi from previous lists. The accrediting agencies represented, however,remain the same, except that. be'ause of the almost universal practice of the State accrediting bodies in extending, teir inspection and accrediting of secondaryet-hoots to cover private as well as blic high schools, Part Ill of the prl.eding bulletin, the a,;redited li containing s of certain private institutions, has been omitted__ Thearrange. ment bf the bet in is substantially uncnanged.The ritAtial parts of the iutrO- dilutions to t previous issues are reprinted here. ACCREDITED SECONDARY SCHOOLDEFISED. Anaccredited secondary school," as the term is usedin this bulletin, is a school win r is equipped to prepare students for colleges requiritti 15 unitsfor unconditioned ' acl fission and which has been investigatedor approved for this purpose by one of the lowing agencies: A State Meyer of education,a university or college. inspector or Committee on admissions, an officeror etimmittee of an accrediting artiociation. Except in the case of certain of theSouthern States, whose high-school coursesare based upon seven years of clementlytraining, it is understood that these 15 units repreeent secondary work above the standardeight-grade, elementary-school course- It is assumed that the curriculum ofan accredited school represents four years of 36 I.re weeks each; that at least three teachers give their wholetime to highecbool work,' and that the school keeps bpan adeqbate library and laboratory equipment.. 1 Exceptions are certain schools in the lists of (lands, .0" Kansas, Kentucky, Nebraska, North Dakota, 16' and Tennessee, which do not confabs in every particularto the definition, but *reapproved by the State officials. 7 ACCREDITED SECONDARY SCHOOLS.' ec . UNIT DEFINED, 6 The following authoritative definition of the word"unit" has been made by the national conference committee on standards of collesant secon:lary schools, whih is composed of representatives of the National Associationof State Universities, the New. England College Entrance Certificate llo:trd, theCollege Entrance Examination Mind, the Aviation of Colleges and PreparatorySchools of the Middle States and Maryland, the A-sociation of Colleges and SecondarySchools of the Southern Stati,, the N.ew England Association of Colleges andSecondary Schools, the Association of American Colleges, the Association of Urban Universities,the carnegie riundation for tho Advancement of Teaching awl the UnitedStates Commissioner of Education:'. A unit representaa year's study in any subject ina secondary school, constituting approximately a quarter of a full year's work. This statement is designed to afford a standard ofmeasurement for the work done in secondary hchools.It takes (11 The four-year high-rchool course as a basis andassumes that. (2) The length of the school year is from 36 to 19 weeks;that- 13) A period is from 40 to 60 minutes in lcngth;tind that (4) Th e. st udy is pursued four or five penodsa week; but under ordinary circumstances a satisfactory year's Workin any subject can not be accomplished in less than 120 sixty-ninute hours,or their equivalent. organized