The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-02
llII Schools.
crowth,. and the
Of Work
Adopted.
huge. TO Be Made
!, ". cooley Gives
''s' ".,,ps Data Regard
calumet schools

-, with supt. Cooley
CANT ' J, work and changes to
plan Ia, :, schools were touched
). I ,as points brought .' out IN IN
''t'o s ' children at the school
''''Ds Give the principal ones.
orr s w. an increase in the at
Dss aa hi schools during the
p 'as p oi about 1000 children.
y ss as'i O. four new buildings i
D. ., rts and the teaching force
''S 's..sd from hity-iour to sew
'as,'s There are, however
'sae' that are still over.crowd DIVIDED
our s'', IS many as eighty pupils
''' .a,ollment in each OF the de-
!! : ' and thsnumber OF teachers in
.,, mel may be OF interest IL
al !" - state that the word pri-
s = tbe first four years work;
", ,ss nj next four years, and high
I. last four years. In the prl-
a : there b I'VE been already
'S s5s5 pupils, taught by fifty
.,.,s Ia the grammar schools
N, taught by thirteen teachers
q school, 1913 pupils. taught ty
ss,rs, in all, 5000 pupils.
snmet schools are organized, IN
on a basis similar to all city
\ the State. With reference to
llis,,tions Of teachers, however,
4. been neutrality-suspicious. and the
\ sducation is now the sole au,
with reference to our teachers
I.nous, in other words the qualii'
Il teachers for work in the Caiu'
boOls is independent OF the county
urs.
course Of study adopted has beer
we'd BY the board of education, ane
4 school courses prepare gradu
4 entrance, without examination
Michigan Mining School, the Mich
krate Normal School, the Univer
Michigan, the University OF Wis
and the Northwestern Universit.
snston, Ill.
kbe teachers now employed in tn
bk. thlrty.fiye received their elemer
ksiniug in the Calumet schools, bu
bsiority Of these have also attende
Nate Normal School. The other fol
y teachers come from differen
IS most Of whom have had specis
aration for teaching, and all hav
successful experience in school wor
Re eoming to Calumet.
the beginning OF the present scho
!, a training school was opened in Il
raj school building. 1t is the pu
Oi this school to give special ate
to the theory and art OF teaching
bone graduates in order to prepa
to take positions in our school
arthis school has been successful, al
young ladies, after a year at the Sta
nal School, and four months wo
lr training school have now been 6
ed to regular work, and will ca
full charge OF schools in January.
'out the only change OF any impol
lat present will be with reference
Ing and number work, IN the T.
'st grades. More attention will he
J be given to reading and less att
to formal number work. Instead
ling twice each day, they will now
o Tour reading exercises, while
ter part OF number work will
Ny incidental. This means that rel
Is to be made the basis OF all wo
100 means that the children will
. an opportunity OF reading to LEI
'e they are learning to read. By I
'ns the bestin literature that has b
pied to little children may be. gi'
. at the beginning OF their sch
* instead OF keeping them grind
tne"l see the dog" work usu,
70 them. Language. history, gees
science and even number work q
De taught through the reading e.
J or grow Immediately out OF it.
plan 1t is hoped that deadformali
much oil school-room drudgery I
made to disappear.
tne hope Of getting the people n
rested In school matters we 9
u time to time give the results of
Is we may hereafter have with s
''ey' which we think may be of il
'or the public to know. The n
'A' mat the people Of Calumet al
upon having sec
services oil Supt. Cooley, whom
' EVE to be a man anxious to kee
'"e times in educational matters.
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