Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-14
SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES

Der 10, is In great demand among the
teachers. Copies were promptly exhausted
and 1t has been ordered reprinted. 1t gives
data and statistics compiled from the re-
port of the committee on salaries, tenures.
pensions, etc, made to the National Educa-
tionad Association at its last annual meet
ing. July, 1905.
Among other statistics Il gives the fol-
lowing summary of facts concerning salary
systems and entrance and promotion re-
quirements in high schools:
1. Salary systems.-(a) In all the cities
noted, with the exception OF Washington.
there is q regular annual increase in sala-
ries.
90 In nearly all there are groups OF
classes of salaries. with regular annual IN
creases in each group.
(c) In New Jersey and New York the sys-
tenn of increase has been fixed by law In
Philadelphia the whole plan of organiZa-
ton, system of salaries and Increases are
provided by statutory law.
I'D New York provides large salaries ana
most liberal annual increases.
te) Washington city provides small sala-
ries and gives no regular annual increase
2 Entrance requirements.-ta) In nearly
every city except Washington an eSanlna-
trance, the examination being requisite in
trance, the examination eng requisite IN
those cities which have recently reorgan-
lied their systems and provided larger sara
ries, as in New York, Chicago and st
Louis.
OBJ In New York both examination and
college degree are required for entrance,
Co In Washington neither examination
nor college degree is required for entrance
B. Promotion requirements--tD Promo
lions are based on merit and longevity.
(b) Promote from group to group, IN
the majority of cities, are made upon the
recommendation of the superintendent ana
approval of the board of education, or upon
written and oral examinations
(c) In Chicago. Philadelphia, Boston and
st. Paul eligibility to principalship Is de-
termined by special examinations.
I'D In New York there is special eX-
animation for the highest group C, and in
Chicago there is one each for groups b
and G.
(e) In Washington there is necessarily
no rule for promotion.
OF the tlirty-nne cities with population
of 100000 or over. Memphis. Tenn OSLO,
and st. Joseph, Mo. $3.50 are the only two
paying a lower average annual salary 10
high school teachers than Washington D.
c., while of these same cities tWenty-thfee
pay an average annual salary to elementary
school teachers lower than Washington,
D. c.
OF the eighty cities with population of
OOO0 or over, in addition TO Memphis,
Tenn. and ST. Joseph, Mo. given ahove2'
Reading Pa. 5000; Wilmington, Del.
($71W; Trenton, n. ]. $500; Manchester
II ii. (SS4D; san Lake City, Utah (ss46); ;
Elizabeth, n. j. (SS45); Kansas City, KAN
$500, alone lay an annual average saary
to high schoo. teachers lower than Wash
ington D. c. while of these same cities
forty-elght pay an annual average salary
to elementary school teachers lower than
Washington, d. G..
There are about 1000 teachers IN the
Washington elementary schools. During
the past fifteen years Is teachers in the eie-
mentary schools have left washington 10
accept better pay elsewhere.
There are about 200 teachers in the Wash
ington high schools. During the past fif-
teen years 4S high school teachers have lett
Washington to accept better pay else
where; 50 of these are men. Twenty-one
have left during the past three years The
average salary vacated was 81 .OSS; the av-
erage salary received Is S2,023, which is In
creasing. as annual increases are provided
in the majority of cities to which these
teachers have been called
DIR. Glenn Irvine Jones. intern at the
George Washington University Hospital,
who has been granted leave Of absence to
accompany the Siamese attache as medical
adviser to Bangkok, Siam, will return in
few months by way of Europe, where he
will visit the principal medical schools. DR..
Jones sailed from New York December q
on the Oceaafca.
Secretary Conner Of the board of educa
ton is making a tour of the school build
ings with the purpose of making an in
vertory of the properties of the public
schools. All old material which is found
utterly useless is hauled away to the Dis
trict property yard, to be sold as junk.
Secretary Conner IS as anxious to discover
what is needed as what is on hand In the
single instance of the matter of desks he Is
being able to furnish many of the eighth
grade schools with open box desks from the
Old Business High School. The Phelps.
Jefferson, Ludlow, Thompson, Wallach and
several other buildings have been supplied
with these desks. which take the place of
the old non-ad Unstable, which are gradually
being weeded out of the schools AS the
about $16O, the Business desks are in de-
mand. Old desks entirely beyond use are
sometimes sent to the manual training
shops to be used as lumber.
Orders have been received by all teachers
in the local public schools above the third
grade to make use Of the daily bulletin of
the weather bureau as an adjunct to the
geographical work. A case has been made
to receive the report and in each school a
boy assigned to place the bulletin as soon
as received in the conspicuous case. The
order reads: Treat as a matter affecting
man In his life and occupation"
Echoes of the recent school centennial ex-
hibit are heard in the correspondence which
is being carried on between the supervising
lost exhibits. The greatest concern is felt
by pupils in the various carpenter shops
who have not received the pieces of wood
work over which they toiled. By carefully
stating the nature of the loss to the teach
ers and reporting promptly 1t is believed
by officials that all pieces can be traced
The great topic of conversation in the pub
lie schools is the beauty of The Stars coll
lecttons Of casts. One teacher said: "Au
the collections have been received by the
winning schools, and so great Is the en-
thusiasm that so far I have not dared to
remind my boys and girls that we must
share the pieces with the buildings that
helped us SO valantly. Now we are all
waiting for the diploma or certificate Of
work for which we have applied
The department OF wood turning and pat
tern making in the colored public schools
of the District of Columbia has been re-
vived and given new impetus through the
organization of Armstrong Manual Training
School, in which has been placed an equip
ment that greatly facilitates the work of
previous years in this branch of the me-
chanic arts.
A student on completing the course will
not graduate as pattern maker or a wood
turner. but rather one generally &C
quainted with the fundamental principles
of the work and possessing that knowledge
of 1t which can be practically annIied when