Questions To Think About

1. What changes had taken place in the lives of youth, according to the Boy Scout Handbook?
2. What, according to the handbook, were the solutions to the problems of youth?
3. How did children in Cleveland spend their leisure time?
4. How many days of school did a typical student attend in 1870? What proportion of young people actually attended school? How likely was such a student to graduate from high school or attend college?
5. Describe the changes that took place in educational expenditures, high school graduation, college enrollment, and literacy rates.