Teaching children effectively requires understanding them, but as times change, educators are left to wonder whether children are changing as well. And, if societal changes affect what young people need, then how should schools respond?
In the April 1938 Kappan, C.H. Blanchard (“Observations of a counselor”) summed up the issue:
Blanchard observed that the increasingly swift societal and technological changes were leading to a longer period of adolescence, as labor laws and union regulations kept young people out of the workplace and compulsory education kept them in school.
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