Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-06-07
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! Maine pays her elementary teachers an
average of $1.20 a day for 313 days in
! the year.
Out of 353 cities and towns in Massa-
chusetts there are but five that have no
| normal teachers.
Complaint has been made in few of
| the counties of Alabama that the supply
of licensed teachers is not equal to the
demand. 3 ~
New York City has discovered a float
| ing truant population, estimated at from
1000 to 1000, among the coal barges
moored along the water front.
Baron Takaki says four-fifths of the
japanese boys are now studying English,
and that it will soon become the language
of Japan and later of the world.
Prof. Simon Newcolnb, whose ''Remi-
niscences of an Astronomer" was recently
published, has been honored by Emperor
William with the order, pour merite for
science and arts"
The State board of health of Minnesota
has issued an order prohibiting consump-
tives from teaching, and is refusing admis-
sion to the schools of children afflicted
with tuberculosis.
Prof. John Bassett Moore, one of the
most popular members of the faculty of
Columbia University, has written the only
history and digest of international arbi-
tration in existence.
A recent opinion by the Attorney Gen
eral of Alabama is that it is unlawful
for the teacher to set copy for the pupils
70 oh IN Atbar
cept by the use of the adopted copy book.
Average monthly wages of teachers in
Ohio.-Township districts, elementary
schools, men, S37; women, 1884, high
schools, men, S65; women, $47. Separate
districts, elementary schools, men, S46;
women, $50; high schools, men, SIT;
women, SIS.
Princeton, H., has something unusual
in the way of a parents meeting They
meet once a month and a committee is
appointed at each meeting to provide for
and take charge of the next meeting. The
average attendance is 250 and fully one
half are men.
A national educational congress is to
be held in Mexico next year at the call
of the federal government. It's principal
object is discussion of the project of put
ting all public schools under the control
of the federal government. At present
they are under the control of the various
States, in some of which they are poor
and some good.
DR.. A. Rambeau, a noted professor of
languages of Kansas City, Mo-, has ac-
cepted a call to the University of Berlin.
He will enter upon his duties this month.
He is at present engaged in writing a
work on the history OF education in the
United States.
The four sons of Charles Darwin, au-
thor of the ''Origin of Species" are all
scientists. Sir George is the PIumian
professor of astronomy at Cambridge
Horace Darwin has been associated with
him in his work; Francis Darwin is a
botanist; and Major Leonard Darwin is
a geographer.
The times used to be in Alabama when
the length of the public school term was
about sixty days. As an indication of
the wonderful improvement in the last
eight years, it will be noticed that large
number of the counties of the State have
fixed uniform school term of not less
than seven months for whites.
Superintendent Cooley of Chicago is
working towards general plan for the
introduction of manual training into ey-
cry grade in the public schools. 1t is ex-
pected that scheme will be worked out
and money found to put it into practice
which will give each child definite train
ing from the time he enters first grade
till his graduation from high school,
At its last session the Legislature of
Pennsyl rania enacted a law raising the
age below which children must attend
school from Ii to IA years, and providing !
that all Who go to work between the ages
of IA and 16 must have certificate from |
the school authorities.
The Oklahoma law provides that coun- |
try districts adjacent TO small towns /
may join ths same, r. that four districts /
may unite an6 instead of having four
small schools with eight grades, with teach
ers poorly adapted to a part of these
grades, have one large central school with
a teacher chosen for each grade on &C.
count of his special fitness for that par
ticular work.