Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-05-24
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cation.
The Philadelphia board of education
is considering the promoting of pupils
three times year instead of twice.
The school children of Kansas have
been contributing their pennies to help
pay for stones to mark the old Santa Fe
trail.
The Panama canal commission has de-
cided to- establish a chain of public
schools throughout the canal zone. A
number of teachers have already beer
sent to the isthmus, and others will fol
low.
DR.. Stratton D. Brooks, who a short
time ago left a high educational post in
Boston to become the superintendent of
the Cleveland, Ohio, schools, is now to re-
turn to his former field of usefulness,
having been elected superintendent of the
Boston schools.
Nine-tenths of the young people in the
State of Rhode Island can attend Brown
university or the State normal school
while boarding at home, which is not true
of one-half the people of any other State
as to the leading college and a State
uOIllul SCHOOl. hC1C 10 oNoiNtiS q SNhOOl
in the State that the superintendent can
not visit without being away from home
owe: night. and every teacher in the State
can attend the annual session of the State
association with total mileage so small
as to seem ridiculous to the teachers of
other States. All of this makes for the
most effective supervision and school leg
islation.
Under the recent federal act of incor-
poration, the Carnegie foundation for the
advancement of teachers was reorganized
by its trustees at New York. Since laSt
fall the claims of various colleges have
been investigated. To be ranked as a
college, an institution must have at least
six teachers and full four years course
in arts and sciences. The exclusion of
sectarian institutions will bar many large
colleges. Any professor 50 years old who
has had not less than fifteen years service
will receive an allowance of $1,000 if his
salary is $1,000 and $50 more for each
500 additional active pay. The award
ing of allowances will begin in June. Two
hundred applications have already bean
made. The annual income is $500O00.
A committee of the alumni of Columbia
University, headed by William Barclay
Parsons, has perfected plans for a ST.
600 900 stadium or athletic arena for the
use of Columbia University and the New
York public schools athletic leagues on
ground which is to be reclaimed from the
Hudson River. When completed it will
extend from 10th street to 10th street
out to the pier line. On this ground three
distinct fields will be erected, one for the
university in the center and two on either
side for the schoolboys. Stands will be
erected on three sides to seat $4,000 peo-
pie. but on the water side an artistic
gate has been designed, with locker rooms
for athletic teams and crews. On top of
the roof covering the stands a large recre-
alton pier is contemplated.
Supt W. J. Shearer of the Elizabeth
N. j. public schools is advocating a
more plant system of school grading. He
believes that American children have a
right to exercise individual taste and re-
spond to individual L, ed in the work OF
the higher grades and that in all the
trades they should be left free to go as
fast as individual ability and opportu-
nitv will permit To do this the princi-
pal and teacher must have a plan for
! Redistribution of pupils at any time, in
stead of being obliged to everlastingly
| force the pupil ito fit an arbitrary and
senseless system" DIR. Shearer says that
! there are three requisites for the attain
meEt of the desired result: First, accd-
rate classification of pupils at the outset
! second, such provision for Reconsideration
| that pupils OF equal advancement can be
| kept together: third. provision that will
| enable each set of pupils to 90 just as fast
as they are able, but no faster, there be
| ing no arbitrary standard TO worry about.
Who he asks. will give any good rea-
| son for mailing the course of study to the
/ CALENDAR" BY reason of the prevailing
system Of set courses by the year, he
! says, there Is an enormous and criminal
| loss of time.
Vilhjalnuer SteffanSson, now a student
ct Harvard, has been appointed a mem
| Der of the newest expedition in search OF
| the north pole, which will leave early in
May from Vancouver, under command OF
| Capt. Elmer Mikkelson. The Harvard
student will be the youngest member OF
| the expedition.
Hereafter in the public schools o!
| I4ynchburg, Va, the increase of teachers
salaries is to depend upon efficiency. This
| is TO be ascertained by having the super
| intendent and supervising principals re-
! port on the work of the teachers as to six
| points; discipline, knowledge of subject.
method and manner, moral influence, pro
| fessional interest and health.