"Creating the comprehensive high school"by James B Conant..& "In the Beginnning: the 1893 Report of the Committee of ten" by Charles Eliot

                  Both of these readings went on about schools, more specifically how high schools are run and how students were learning. The reading by Charles Eliot spoke about a committee who delt and debated over the questions high schools should be paying close attention to. While the piece writen by James Conant was geared more towards how students could be better taught and the best possible ways to run a good school.
                 It was diffiicult to read "In the Beginning..." because i felt asthough it was very dry and had no conection to its readers. The questions the counsels were asking however were correct. They foccused alot on the way a school should be run to better sute the needs of its students. Though this was written many years before, it still discussed many questions teachers and students deal with today.
                  The piece written by James Conant "Creating the Comprehensive High School" was much easier to read and understand. The author discussed high schools that him and his group had visited. He describes all the things he found they were doing wrong, problems that were even effecting students education. The author states that most students that were advanced were not being guided properly or made to take certain classes that would only benifite them. Conant also goes on to state revisions he thinks would help school systems work better. One way is by recomending certain classes like literature, math and sciences be taken at an earlier age then high school, because many students enter college withough sufficient knowlede in those subjects. In Conant's second book he does not mention those subjects as classes that should be taught at an earlier age.
                         I feel that i would agree with what both authors had to say because school systems, especially high schools have always been faulty. I believe it to be because it is difficult to find a balance between a serious high school invironment and a place were children could go to express themselves but learn at  the same time. Another major problem is funding, most schools just dont have to money to do the things asked of by these authors, they cant afford special counselers for the more talented kids or a teacher to constantly work with the kids who fall behind. Even so, maybe one day all these things will be posible and the problems faced by high schools today will be a thing of the past.