Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-05-16
Fix College Standard.

Fix College Standard.
Among the regulations adopted by
the state board Of educational exam.
.ners, at their recent state house
meeting, was one to the effect that
certificates issued by the board to
graduates of colleges and normal
schools in Iowa hereafter, under the
Stcokey law, shall bear the informa.
lion as to the college from which the
lolder was a graduate. If he Is from
the university, his certificate will
state the fact; and If he be from
iowa college at Grinnell, that fact
will be found on the document
The system adopted by the educa-
tional examiners resembles the rate
sheets of the state railroad commits
sion; there Is schedule and classi-
tications. After adopting the SEIZED
ule of requirements to determine the
standing of institutions to be cred
ite1 under the Stookey law and their
graduates granted certificates with
out examination, the board fixed diff
ferent grades or classification Of GER
tificates.
A college graduates FIVE year GER
tificate was created. This will issue
to the graduates of colleges whose
graduates are eligible to be admitted
to the graduate college of the State
University of Iowa, provided that
they have had special training, also,
for one year in psychology and diiac.
tics.
A first grade state certificate was
created to be issued to the graduates
Of the State Normal school and Of
other normal schools having the same
standard, and giving the long course.
A second grade state certificate
was authorized to be issued to the
graduates of other than the State
Normal school which give the short
course of the standard of the state
normal.
An examination certificate was
authorized also, to be issued to col
lege and normal graduates taking
certain specific work, as provided by
the board.
The law provides that at the close
of said five years period upon proof
of at least three years successful
teaching experience, the educational
board of examiners may renew these
certificates.
The board discovered that in the
legislature an amendment was tackled
on the Stookey bill limiting it's privi-
leges to the graduates of Iowa insti-
buttons alone. 1t provides that the
state educational board of examiners
I'm hn
lr and collegiate courses in the state
university, State Normal schools, and
the State College Of Agriculture and
Mechanic Arts and from other insti-
tutions, of higher learning in the state
having regular and collegiate courses
of equal rank, as evidence that a
teacher possesses the scholarship and
professional fitness for a state certi-
fcate."
This appeared to compel the grad
oates of Ann Arbor, Yale, ETC., to
take the examination. But attention
was directed to the Turner act which
provides that 1.-THE state educational
board of examiners Is hereby empow-
cred to validate certificates issued 10y
state departments of education in
other states, where such certificates
were issued upon evidence of schol-
arship and experience equivalent to
that required for like certificates I'M
der the laws of this state"
In effect, therefore, the board will
be able to give the graduates Of out
side institutions of like standards
the right to teach without examina-
ton in Iowa.