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SCIENCES IN THE HIGH SCHOOL
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in the report adopted by the secondary department of the National Education Association in July, 1911, on "The Articulation of High School and College." In its report of 1893, the Committee of Ten suggested a similar treatment of the subject of geography, a recommendation that seems to have had little influence on subsequent practise.

Despite the variety of opinion as to what the sequence of high

school science should be, experience has established a generally accepted order, agreeing more or less with the authoritative report of the Committee of Ten. Recent high school courses of study of the twenty-one largest cities in Illinois, omitting Chicago and its environs, give interesting data concerning the present practise. The method of using these data was to give the value .5 to a science offered any time in the first