Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-05-25
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Louisiana is discussing compulsory edu-
cation. b. @
The Philadelphia board of education
is considering the promoting of pupils
three times a 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 cana, commission has De
| cided to establish a chain of public
| schools throughout the canal zone. A
| number of teachers have already been
| sent to the isthmus, and others will fol-
low. -,. ..-s. ..v.r r..ri. ..--r- %
DIR. Stratton d. Brooks, who a short
fine 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,
| hayins. been elected superintendent of the
Boston schools.
Njne-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
normal school. There is scarcely a school
in t.le State that the superintendent can
| not visit without being away from home
| ovet night. and every teacher in the State
| can attend the annual session of the State
association with a 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
i~slat:on.
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 a full four years course
! in arts and sciences. The exclusion OF
sectarian institutions will bar many large
colleges. Any professor 60 years old who
has had not less than fifteen years service
will receive an allowance of $1,000 If has
salary is 1000 and 500 more for each
500 additional active pay. The award
ing of allowances will begin>in June. Two
hundred applications have already been
made. The annual income is $ooO,OOo.
A committee of the alumni Of Columbia
University, headed by William Barclay
Parsons. has perfected plans for a 81
oOO.O 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 1t VIII
e~tond from 10th street to 12Oth street
ont to the pier line. On this ground three
distincr fields will be erected. one for the
university in the center and two on either
S;de for the schoolboys. Stands will be
'.-, -. .l,>a siJas IN Sanr 2JtNN) DpO-
Mo but on the water side an artistic
cate has been designed. with locker rooms
for athletic teams and crews. On top of
rho roof covering the stands a large recre
ation pier is contemplated.
SUM-. w. ]. Shearer of the Elizabeth
N ~ public schools is advocating a
more plant system of school grading. lie
h,I;,yas that American children have a
r;aht RI exercise individual taste and re-
snond to individual need in the work of
nc higher grades and that in all the
o,.odes they should be left free to go as
Fast as individual ability and opportu-
r;tv will permit. To do this the princi-
nal and teacher must have a plan for
rer,as,i6cation of pupils at any time, in
,t.oa Of being obliged to everlastingly
for,e the pupil TO fit an arbitrary and
sonso,ass system" DIR. Shearer says that
+hora are three requisites for the attain
ma,t of the desired result: First, accu-
rate classification of pupils at the outser;
s.oond such provision for reclassification
lis, pupils Of equal advancement can pc
Lon, topether third, a provision that Will
anah,e each set of pupils to go just as fast
II. 4bey are able, but no faster, there be-
ino m arbitrary standard to worry about.
..yyho ,, he asks. will give any good rea-
~ for mailing the course OF study to the
.a,.odarY, BY reason OF the prevailing
s..,sm of set courses BIZ the year, he
s.rs, there is an enormous and crinind
loss Of time.