The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-09-27
GREAT STRIDES IN
EDUCATION N
STATE
The Enrolment Is Flattering
and the Teachers Are of
High Order.

The great educational awakening
which has been going on in North Da-
kota for the past few years is mani
Testing itself strikingly in the results
that are seen in the schools just now
opening throughout the state, and
there Is much reason for encourage
ment all along the lines
At the state department of public
instruction there Is much activity, and
the most fattering reports are coming
In from all over the state.
New forms of reports have been sent
out to the superintendent, and the
reforms instituted in this matter have
led to situation which enables State
Superintendent Stockwell to keep in
close touch with what is going on all
the time. Mr.. Stockwell and his chief
clerk, being practical school men, un-
derstand thoroughly how the work
ought to be done, and they are devot-
Ing all their energies to the end that
1t shall be done for the best interests
of all the people of the state. And
they are in high spirits, not only over
the bright outlook for the pending
session, but over what has already
been done and what is being done for
the upbuflding and betterment of the
entire school system.
Some of the public schools have al
ready opened, but most of these are
in the cities and the eastern counties
of the state. The other rural schools
will open all along from now until the
middle of October, when they will all
be in full blast.
They will run from five to nine
months, according to the financial
ability of the respective counties.
Perhaps no section of the state has
more enthusiastically responded to the
popular demand for a better system
of public education than the west. AMI
out there longer terms, better houses.
better teachers and modern eouip-
ments have been secured.
In nearly all these counties new
school houses have been built, and
high schools established with CAPABLE
teachers.
They have opened up under the most
suspicious circumstances, and will
run for as much as nine months
Schools Strong.
One of the prominent educators of
the state said today: Prospects for
a most successful session are very
bright.
Nearly everywhere the schools have
opened the enrolment of pupils ex-
ceeds that of any previous session.
and most capable corps of teachers
are In charge. In many instances the
pay of teachers has been increased,
and the terms extended.
The class of furniture used has
been raised, and we are doing away
with the old-fashfOned benches and
desks and blackboards as fast as the
local districts can buy new ones.
Patent desks, slate blackboards,
improved teachers desks, and seats
for assembly rooms are being ordered
for many localities in the various Sec
tions of the state.
Our advices are that in all the
counties and cities where the schools
have opened the attendance is larger
than ever before, and that the session
Is beginning under the most promis-
ing circumstances.
The city public schools opened and
got down to real work last week, and
the enrolment was never SO large.
The teachers and pupils seem equally
interested, as a rule, in making the
session success, and there is every
reason to believe that they will ac-
complish this end.
Better furniture and equipments
have been put in in couple of the
buildings, and every effort is made to
keep the pupils and teachers comfort
ably and conveniently situated. The
improvements to the Wilder school
will give added facilities for handling
the school children in the. north end
of the CITY,"