Junior-senior high school administration

Foreword

In 191 5 Charles Hughes Johnston invited me to collaborate with him in writing a little book in the form of a manual on the administration of the junior and senior high school. Doctor Johnston believed that there was need for a book that would clearly set forth the best administrative practices in the best American high schools. As we worked on the problem, however, we gradually changed our plans until it became our purpose to write a medium-sized volume on the administration of the junior and senior high school, in which we would endeavor to describe not merely some of the best administrative practices, but to give, sometimes by implication and sometimes directly, the principles upon which these administrative practices should be based.

Doctor Johnston was one of the foremost advocates of what has commonly been called the socialized school, using the term "socialized school" in a technical sense that will be generally understood by the profession. "The Modern High School," which Doctor Johnston prepared in co-operation with a number of men and women, principally men and women working in the secondary field, was the first book to treat definitely the problems of socializing the administration and teaching methods of the high school and to attack the problems of the social life and the social programme of the high school. This book was a pioneer. It was devoted to the development of the idea of the socialized school vi FOREWORD

rather than to definite administrative procedure and devices.

At the time of Doctor Johnston's tragic and untimely death in September, 191 7, our project was still somewhat less than half completed. We had practically reached a final conclusion as to the chapters to be included in the book, and most of these chapters were rather definitely outlined. Some had been written. But our work had already been interfered with by our professional duties and finally by the outbreak of the war in the spring of 191 7. After Doctor Johnston's death, Mrs. Johnston and the publishers decided that this book ought to be finished as nearly as possible along the lines on which it had been planned. During the war period this work was conducted under the greatest difficulties on the part of all of the friends of Doctor Johnston who have assisted in the volume as it stands.

In the spring of 1918 Mr. Frank G. Pickell, at that time principal of Lincoln High School, a long-time friend of Doctor Johnston and a pupil of his, very kindly consented to co-operate in the completion of the book and became one of the authors. Mr. Pickell made many valuable suggestions and criticisms and contributed about one-third of the chapters.

Professor Guy M. Whipple contributed the chapter on Adolescence; other friends and pupils, among whom I would especially mention Doctor John A. Stevenson and Miss Clara Mabel Smith, have assisted with their criticism and suggestions; while Mrs. Charles Hughes Johnston has been very largely responsible for completing the plans of the book as it now stands, for editing and writing much of the material, and for carrying the work to completion.

FOREWORD vii

Those of us who were the friends and pupils of Doctor Johnston believe that this book, with its many deficiencies, represents his point of view as regards the aims that must characterize our secondary schools and the methods of administration, as nearly as it would be possible for friends to represent, frequently by concrete illustration, his views on such matters.

The following chapters were either written entirely by Doctor Johnston or were projected and partially written by him and completed by Mrs. Johnston.

Education for the New Democracy.

Party Platforms in Education.

High School Terminology.

The High School Issue.

The Junior High School.

Junior High School Administration.

The High School Library.

The High School and Modern Citizenship.

Acknowledgment is made to the Educational Review for permission to reprint "High School Terminology"; to The Library Journal for " The High School Library "; and to Educational Administration and Supervision for "The High School Issue," "The Junior High School," "Junior High School Administration," and "High School and Modern Citizenship."

The remaining chapters were written by those who have collaborated upon the book.

All this work has been done by friends as a labor of love for one who contributed in a large way to the development of secondary education in America, who inspired many young men and women to experimentation in the adaptation of the school to the needs of boys and viii FOREWORD

girls, and who, in a brief span of less than forty years,

made for himself a permanent place in the history of

American education.

Jesse H. Newlon.

Denver, Colorado.