Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-14
STATE CERTIFICATES
Board of Educational Examiners
Meets to Adopt Rules Under
New Law.
Graduates Of Approved Colleges
May Receive Certificates
for Teaching.
Educators Believe the Change
Will Improve the Rural
School Teacher.
Special to r;mes-Repuplican.

Des Moines, May IA. = The state
board of educational examiners is IN
SESSION in the office of the superinten-
dent of public instruction and before
adjourning will do business of the
greatest interest to the educators of the
state. 1t will be recalled that the leg
islature passed a law amending that
chapter of the code which relates to the
granting of certificates, giving much
greater discretion to the board in the
granting of certificates. Under the
present law no person can get first
class teachers certificate without hay-
ing first had experience in teaching,
neither a county certificate nor state
certificate. The law is mandatory and
requires that applicants must possess
certain educational qualifications with
successful teaching experience. Ihe
law which goes into effect in July next
modifies this last clause so that the
state board of examiners may grant
state certificates to those who have
had. in lieu of teaching experience, cer-
tain special training in colleges or nor
mai schools. 1t is for the state board
to decide what these qualifications
shall be. This is the primary purpose
of the meeting here today. Rules Will
be adopted so that persons who have
completed the normal course at the
state normal school or have gone thru
certain colleges, may secure state cert-
ficates without first waiting for term
or two in school. 1t will make material
difference in the work Of the board with
regard to applicants for certificates. In
addition to this the board is to go over
the ground with the representatives OF
minor normal schools and the denom-
national colleges the details of putting
into force the new law relating to the
normal work of lesser degree. Repre-
sentative King, of Harrison county,
author of the bill, is here, also Prof
Kinney, of the Woodbine normal, who
lis the real father Of the proposition and
who was most active In urging the So
called king Hogue bill upon the legts-
lature. The bill was urged especially
for the normal school at Woodbine and
in the hope and expectation that other
schools would take up normal work IN
a similar manner. 1t is expected that
before the present meeting and con-
ference with the representatives of col
leges is ended rules will have been adop-
ted for putting that law into force.
iOne Of the earnest advocates OF the
King Hogue bill is State Superinten-
dent Barrett. II believe the general ef-
feet Of this law will be good" he stated
last evening. "The representatives of
the normal schools and colleges are
taking hold of it earnestly and fairly.
The responses to my invitations were
in good spirit and have every reason
to believe that the law will be put into
effect in a way to accomplish much
good. had hoped that the representa-
tives of the normal schools. the schools
that have normal courses, including the
colleges, would get to-
gether and adopt what would be min
imum course of study for normal work
in preparation for teaching in the COM
mon rural schools and this might be
approved by the educational board.
Then it would be well understood just
what is required Of these schools to
gain recognition. My idea is that this
work will in no wise detract from that
of the state normal school and colleges.
Their graduates are going into the high
schools and the graded schools. The
persons who receive diplomas from
these minor normal schools are to go
into the common schools of the country.
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in the state who have not had any nor
NAL training. The field is so large that
we cannot have too much of the work
of training teachers done. l believe the
new law will have good effect"
Senator Joe Junkin was in the city
last night from Red Oak. He reports
that politics are unusually quiet in
that part of the state and but very
little interest manifested in the coming
republican state convention. But We
may be pardoned," he said, for not
thinking of politics much; for we have
had a terrible fire in our town and
have been so busy with rearranging
our affairs that we could not think Of
anything else. The crops are looking
we'll in southeastern Iowa this spring
and the farmers are feeling good"
Representative M. l.. Temple, of Osce
ola, was also in the city attending su-
preme court He says he has been
very busy with court work since the
close of the legislature and has not had
time to consider politics to any great
degree.
1t is seldom that Iowa boys get a
chance at free scholarships, but such
things do happen now and then. The
other day the head of what is known as
the National College of Law at Nash
vile, Tenn, asked the state superln-
tendent to recommend two persons
for such scholarships in that college.
He named Claude Campbell, of Ames
and A. r. Swisher, of Iowa City, who
will attend the school.
Work on the live stock pavilion at
the state fair grounds commenced at
once. The contractors showed re-
markable activity in getting some of
the steel on the ground within week
after the contract had been let. The
entire contract went to Iowa persons.
The recent murder at Perry brings
to mind the care with which the con-
suls of some foreign countries IN the
United States watch after their peo-