Teenage and Illegitimate births have risen dramatically in the past 50 years. Children born under these conditions tend to have poorer health and poorer success in school. The Reform Movement Reform in American Education is not new. Education has never been static, but has always responded to demands for change. Extension of adolescence into the 20's by demand from employers for better educated employees, the expansion of the upper grades, and expansion of college enrollment.
Busses allow schools to be desegregated.
Schooling is extended to all. The advent of the industrial model, or factory system of education. Ease of transport has served to isolate the nuclear family. Increase in divorce has made children more 'at risk'. Increased teen and illegitimate births puts more children 'at risk'.