Excerpt from The Administration of County High Schools, in the South, Vol. 6
This study of the administration of county high schools in the South was undertaken primarily with the hope of determining, so far as the facts found seem to warrant it, a conclusion, founded on something more than a personal opinion, as to whether the county, as a unit of secondary administration, should be advocated for high schools throughout the United States. The increasing prominence of the county, as a unit of supervision; the recognition the county has been receiving in recent legislation, as a unit of school administration; and the increase in the number of county high schools which have been organized during the last decade, were the further reasons for the study being made at this time.
Secondary sources are the bases for the study. Since they are in print and are carefully referred to in the dissertation wherever used, it was felt that, owing to the character of this particular study, greater accuracy could be secured by depending on them than on sources sought otherwise. In some cases it was necessary to supplement these sources by letters and by specific questions relating to the particular case addressed to high-school inspectors and to professors of secondary education in state universities. Where such data are used, the fact is always indicated in the citations of authority.
The method of study used was to take the important phases of high-school administration, which are chapter topics, and under these to collect and present the facts. The interpretation of these facts is then attempted, and this is followed by such conclusions as their interpretations seem to warrant. The answer to the question which the thesis presents is then sought from these conclusions. In the presentation of the facts, detailed data are not presented, since they are in print and can always be referred to by going to the source indicated. Only summaries which contain the phases of the distribution of the facts pertinent to the fundamental question involved are presented. The reader who wishes more detailed data than are presented can always find them in the sources indicated, and readers who do not wish to be burdened with them do not need either to wade through or pick their way around tables of such materials. Further, it is thought unsound to reprint secondary sources.
In such a study an occasional error is bound to creep in.
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