The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-04
SCHOOLS ADVANCE
DR.. GREEN REPORTS MUCH
PROGRESS.
Enrolment in Higher Institutions Has
Increased, and Their Graduates Are
Given Better Opportunities.
Especial to the Evening start

TRENTON, Jan. 4.-General im7
New Jersey is the keynote sounded in
the annual report of DR.. James M
Green, of the New Jersey State Norf
NAL and Model Schools and the Far3
mum Preparatory School at Beverly.
DIR. Green shows that the enrolment
of the State schools has increased. del
noting a greater turning out of stui
dents by the high schools Of the STATED
He also speaks of the removal Of the
ban which has existed in some of the
large cities on normal school graduates
as teachers in the schools of the
various municipalities in which the
boards of education preferred to give
the preference of places as teachers to
graduates of their own training
schools. This progress, he thinks, Is
an excellent sign and one which il
bound to increase the teaching
strength in the State.
At the Normal and Model schools
during the year just closed the total
gain in enrolment over last year was
A in each institution, making the total
Normal School enrolment SOB. and the
total Model School enrolment 641.
OF the 242 new student in the Normal
school this year, 100 were graduates
from high schools of four-years courses;
81 had taken three years in the high
schools, and 16 were admitted by ex-
animation. Six were received on teach
ers' certificates. The increase in the
number of high school graduates en-
rolled over 1906 is 38.
Dealing with the matter of teachers
salaries for beginners. DR.. Green says
that the average monthly salary for
this year is $4S.11, a substantial increase
over the preceding year. Most of the
Normal School eachers are located in
towns and large cities, very few having
gone TO rural districts. Several gradu-
ates have gone without the State to
teach. New York has gotten the lions
share of these because of the attractive
salaries offered. Discussing the gen.
eral scholarship of the schools DIR.
Green says:
"a complete exhibit OF the work OF the
Normal, together with the Model, was sent
to the jamestown exhibit. and was award
ed a silver medal, the highest award given
for any departmental exhibit.
Fol some years past it has been our
custom to assign the members of the gradu-
ating class to different schools in the State
for a month of student teaching, in order
that they might gain experience under su-
pervision in the public schools. The re-
suits OF this experience were good, but not
sufficiently determinate to prove entirely
satisfactory to the people of the State.
The purpose of the appropriation was to
enable the State board to make definite
arrangements with local school authorities
for the designation of given qualified teach
ers under whom these student teachers
mlnlt he aSEiQnQd and who gh0IIi6 ha Maid
Tor their services and increased RESPONSE
bility.
The plan. as thus far developed. has
taken the form of establishing what are
known as notwithstanding centres. For
the purpose of introducing the system, let
tiers were sent to the superintendent of
a number of the leading schools that were
so located geographically as to
date all Of the members of our graduating
class within easy distance of their homes.
me result was the establishment of stu
dent-teaching centres at Somerville, Plain
nelo, Westheld, Summit, Freehold, Ocean
Grove, Long Branch, Dover. New Rrtins-
wick, Nutley, Princeton, Passaic. Ruther-
Iord, Lakewood, Haddonheld, Atlantic
City, Bordentown and LambertviIle.
one very marked advantage that grows
our or the system is that those who are
70 employ the graduation of the Normal
school share in their training. The system,
, H,iI enan any that has been in practise,
IL Is really to take care OF its own.
mere Is a constantly increasing spirit
~ SoopStation with us on the part Of the
hlsh schools. We are asked by them 10
report on the status Of their pupils with
us and TO make such suggestions as seem
Wise; We have reciprocated in the same
spirit. This mutual recognition OF the
parts taken both by the Normal School
and high schools in the preparation OF the
teacher is important.
The growth of the Model School. the
success of its graduates In entering the
various colleges and technical schools and
the rank Of its work on exhibition must
give an increased appreciation of the f,art
II IS taking in the State educational sys-