Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-12
PLAN FOR COOPERATION
President of Howard University
Submits Proposition.
MAKING EXIT DOORS OPEN OUT
Appointments, Promotions, Trans
fers, Reductions, Resembling
Former Action and Names
on Substitute List.

were taken fndue puOilC dt d H'ecl-
ing of the board of education yesterday
afternoon. Plans for changing doors OF
one building so that they will open out
ward instead of inward were announced.
the appointment of a nurse to serve in
the public schools was approved, and the
board was informed by the Commission
crs that the sanitary conditions of sub
urban schools will be investigated.
a plan for increasing the cooperation
between the public schools and Howard
University was submitted by President
Thirkield of the latter institution. 1t
proposes to give scholarships in the uni
versity to graduates of the NJ Street
High School. the Armstrong Manual
Training School and the Normal School
for Colored Students, and asks in return
that pupils in the teachers college of the
university be allowed to practice teach
ing in certain grades in the public schools
and graduates be eligible for appointment
as teachers in the public schools. the same
as graduates of the normal schools.
Breaking all records, the board was
called TO order promptly at 3 O'Clock. the
time appointed for the session. w. ".
James F. Oyster and DR.. B. w. Evermann
were absent.
Relations With University.
Inc plan LOT closer relations between
Howard University and the public schools
was one of the first matters presented
After the letter from President Thirkield
had been read II was referred to the
committee on high, normal and manual
training schools for consideration. The
proposed arrangement in detail Is as
follows:
With view to bringing about closer
and more helpful relations between How
the District of Columbia, it is the purpose
of the university authorities to offer a
reasonable number of scholarships in
Teachers College to graduates of NJ Street
High School, Armstrong Manual Training
School and Normal School No. ., in June
1900
For several years. by the courtesy of
the superintendent and of the assistant
schools a few students in the kinder
sarten training class of the Teachers
College of Howard University have been
permitted TO observe and to practice In
certain public kindergartens. This ar
rangement has proved Of much value to
our students. and. we believe, rather help
full to the public schools
To Practice Teaching.
'Appreciative of this opportunity. We
now write, at the suggestion of Assistant
Supt. Bruce, to submit to you a formal
not more than ten properly qualified stu
dents in Teachers College each year to
observe and to practice teaching on SIM
liar terms in the graded schools (grades
| A to B. inclusive). In case this re-
quest is approved by you and granted
The dean of Teachers College will ex-
tend all public school teachers In whose
classrooms his students are observing or
practicing the privilege of attending APP
propr.ate teachers extension courses In
Teachers College without charge. It is
believed that the presence Of the college
students trained in the best methods and
practice of education In the several class
rooms will prove of some positive ad-
vantage to pupils and teachers.
We would suggest the advisability of
your appointing committee of three
school officers to confer with a similar
committee authorized by the president of
the university as to ways and means of
articulating the courses of Normal School
No. with those of Teachers College to
the ends that wasteful duplication of
teaching resources be avoided and that
graduates of the Normal School be ad-
mitted to advanced standing in the
Teachers College of Howard University
without examination.
Eligible for Appointment.
Finally. we hope that you will direct
the committee above recommended to con-
slider also whether or not an arrangement
with both the degree of bachelor Of arts
and also the professional diploma in edu-
cation from Teachers College may ipso
facto be eligible to appointment to the
intermediate grades of the public schools
Centh. eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth d.
visions) upon condition:
THAT the board of examiners for color
ed schools verify the final examinations
for the professional diploma OF Teachers
College. declare them adequate to the
requirements OF the school law. and ac-
cept these examinations as their own.
Number Eligible Each Year.
THAT not more than six graduates be
eligible in any one year. The appoint
ment of only six of these graduates to
the intermediate grades In any one year
il should be borne in mind. would not
mean serious direct competition with the
Normal School graduates for the reasons
that the latter appointed to grades
one and two and that the number of
vacancies in the intermediate grades each
year is large The whole question of
appointment of teachers is to be viewed.
we are confident you will agree. funda-
mentally as matter or securing from
whatever source the most promising and
efficient teachers for the children.
I'VE are advised. moreover. that In the
coIored elementary schools the number
and the proportion of college graduates
are exceedingly small and that special
inducement must in fact be offered to
attract them. The purpose Of our sugges-
ton. then. is. on the one and. to pro-
vide incentives and opportunities for the
college and professional graduates OF
Teachers College: and. on the other
hand, to enrich the personnel OF the
teaching corps in the elementary schools
with promising young men and women
of exceptional aspiration and ability and
superior academic and professional oppor-
tunities.
Inspection for Homes Commission.
On recommendation OF Supt. Stuart. the
hoard voted TO allow the inspection Of
public school children on behalf of the
Presidents homes commission. DR.. kober
wrote the board several weeks ago stating
that the commission desired information
regarding the causes of poverty, and to
have inspections OF school children to de-
teruline physical defects found among
them and their causes. The plan was
tried in one building to see II II could
he carried out without embarrassment to
the children and interference with their
studies The trial inspection was found
satisfactory and. therefore. the plan will
be followed in the other public schools OF
the District
j. A. Chamberlain head of the manual
training department of the schools rec
commended through Supt. Stuart that old
machines and other equipment used in tn
schools before the mckinley Manual
Training School was established be loan