RETARDATION OF PUPILS. The report of the Commission pays special attention to the " retardation " of pupils, and data relative to retardation are shown race by race. A " retarded " pupil, as the term is used throughout this report, is one who is 2 or... The children of immigrants in schools - Page 281911Full view - About this book
| United States. Immigration Commission (1907-1910) - 1911 - 926 pages
...Buffalo f selected schools) ........ Chir-airo (v-lected schools) Total 61,231 62,507 8,724 85.8 14.2 36 RETARDATION OF PUPILS. The report of the Commission...term is used throughout this report, is one who is older than the normal age for his grade. Thus, a pupil is retarded if 8 years of age or over and m... | |
| United States. Immigration Commission (1907-1910) - 1911 - 1646 pages
...1,227 471 380 1,627 1,073 1,322 1,037 hools) schools). hools) shoots) 61.231 62.607 8,724 85.8 14.2 RETARDATION OF PUPILS. The report of the Commission...A retarded" pupil, as the term is used throughout tliis report, is one who is older than the normal age for his grade. Thus, a pupil is retarded if 8... | |
| David B. Tyack - 1974 - 372 pages
...(not including New York, which will be discussed separately below). Defining a "retarded" pupil as "one who is 2 or more years older than the normal age for his grade" (using six years as the normal age for first graders), the Commission found the following percentages... | |
| Stephen Lassonde - 2008 - 317 pages
...his or her developmental progression was referred to as grade "retardation": "A 'retarded' pupil ... is one who is 2 or more years older than the normal age for his grade," US Congress, Senate, Reports of the Immigration Commission: The Children of Immigrants in Schools,... | |
| 1911 - 204 pages
...number and percentage of pupils 8 years of age or over ''retarded." As has already been explained, a " retarded''' pupil, as the term is used throughout this report, is one who is two or mort years older than the normal age for the grade. For each of the general race groups and... | |
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