Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-11-01
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Three Chinese girls, wards of the En-.
pcror, have arrived at Wellesley College,
being the first Chinese women to be sent
to America to be educated.
Under Vermont's new law common
school districts are in process of enlarge
ment and concentration, for wherever two
or more outlying towns can agree 10 unite
under one supervisor the State pays a
large part of the salary of such officer.
The Alumni Association of Houston,
Texas, has raised funds n established a
dining room in the high school, which is
one of the best of it's kind in the coun-
try. This addition gives the students
who are taking domestic science an oppor-
tunity not only to prepare the meals, but
to serve them.
Editor Page of the Worlds Work is adj
| vocating the establishment of a school for
authors in connection with the universe
ties. He holds hat writing is a trade
like any other, and that those who pro-
pose to follow, it should receive a regular
course of instruction. He would have each
poet student compelled to write a sonnet
a day for one term, and each prose stu
dent 1000 words, the course to extend
over three or four years.
In its annual report on the statistics
of cities having a population of over 3d.
600, the Census Bureau presents a very
interesting table showing the costs OF
maintaining free public schools, including
in such costs the interest on investments
in school buildings and grounds. These
vary from Z cents per capita in Charles,
ton. s. c., and % cents in Atlanta, Ga,
to $1.33 in Denver, Colo; to SLAB in
| Newton, Mass, and $1.53 in Spokane,
Wash.
The New York City Board Of Educa-
ton has appointed a special committee
of three to inquire of the teachers wheth-
er the adjustment of corporal punish
ment in public schools has been beneficial
or detrimental in maintaining order and
respect. Should the concensus of opinion
be adverse to the present methods, it is
proposed to restore the rod to its former
position in the schools of the city. Com
plants nave recently come from some
teachers that they are unable to maintain
order because the supervising force is
powerless to infict punishment for Of
lenses affecting general behavior.
In Missouri the condition of public
school teachers seems even less sat1sfac-
tory. J.. NJ. Greenwood, president of the
State Teachers Association, says the ay-
erage pay of men teachers is 1925 a year,
and of women teachers 1919 a year. The
average. for the country schools alone is
considerably lower. In some country dis
tricts teachers receive less tina half the
compensation of unskilled labor. There
is said to be a constant stream of the
best of the Maine teachers going to other
parts of New England, to New York and
to the West. Presumably this stream
does not head toward Missouri. The at
tendance last year at the Maine normal
school was less than for several years.
The reason for this is apparent.-Hart-
ford Courant.
According to a report of the Brooklyn
fMass.) Teachers Association. as pub
iished in the Lawrence Telegram, there is
a decided sentiment throughout the State
favoring a system of promotion by sub
jects instead of grades in the secondary
schools. 1t is also felt that n liberal edu-
cation course should be devised, to take
ifteen years in its completion instead of
zen years, as at present. The Telegram
st.i,tarfs.s that IL the attempt TO have the
National Educational Association adopt
his report is successful a change nothing
short of revolutionary win soon be in
force in our national educational system.
At Spokane, Wash, a $4,000 admins
ration building is to be erected for the
Ugh school. 1t will include a gymnasium,
eparate shower baths for girls and boys,
| teachers assembly hall, u board room,
supervisors Offices and a teachers Ii
orary.
The Chicago Board of Education has
lecided to admit adults, both foreign and
american born, to the city high schools.
rho admission If adults RI tha alementary
.chools was not passed upon. The ques-
ion of the admissibility to the high school
anne before the board through a recon-
nendatien that three natives of Japan
and other countries be allowed to enter.