Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-30
Some Notable Increases.

| population
| enrolled In schools has increased from
| 1882 to 1892 since 1870; the average
daily attendance has increased from 50 >
to 1913. and the average length Of school
term has increased from 1872 days to ISL
days during the same time. The aver
age number of school days attended by
each person in the United States between
| the ages of five and eighteen years has
increased from AT to 74.3. and the aver
age number of days attended by each
pupil enrolled has increased from 1874 to
1862. which is very encouraging sign.
The number of teachers in the United
States has increased from 2OO,JlJ 10 474,
2sS since 1870. The number of man
teachers has Increased from 1922 to
| 13,173. and the number of woman teach
ers from 1223S6 to 1863, 1855.
| The average monthly wages of mar
| teachers have increased from SAG 80 In I3(g
to $56.1O i'm 1907. and the average monthly
wages of woman teachers from SIS. 93 tc
$43.6l, which is gratifying sign, but
| a deplorable reflection upon the sense of
justice of the people of this country, par
| ticularly when 1t is remembered that the
larger number of teachers are paid only
| during the months when they are en-
ployed, and receive nothing whatever dur
| ing vacation. If the annual incomes of
| teachers were given instead OF monthly
| salaries the figures would be all the more
| significant.
There is no profession or occupation
SD underpaid that of school teachers
The average cook or housemaid receives
| d larger compensation than the average
! woman school teacher, when it is con-
sidered that they are provided with bed
and board. Not long ago a committee of
the State Teachers Association of In
diana reported that 12,0sJ teachers in tn A
state received less than $500 a year, and
| that the average annual salary was
S42O.32 The average salary of the high
school teacher was $6S4.S1 about the
same pay as the street cleaners i'm In
dianapoiis.
1 According TO DR.. Browns statistics,
there are 2I911J schoolhOuses in the
United States. valued at $S43,3O9 40
which is an increase in number from
| 17S.122 and in value from 5000 ST. rs
since 1880 The receipts for schools from
state and local taxes. permanent funds
rents and other sources have increased
from xi43.194,so6 to s343.GO2, 73s. and the
school purposes have Increased from 81 2
to $3.50 and per pupil from $17.23 to
$2I.9S during the same time.
| The increase in expenditure per pupi
for salaries of teachers has Increased
from $1I.26 to Sl6.67 since 1880
Conditions in the South.
These percentages are kept down by the
conditions. in some of the southern states
where the schools are in still deplorabie
condition. but are rapidly improving
Since 1902, when a movement for the i'm
provement of educational facilities among
the white people of the south was under
taken by few enterprising and patriotic
| men, the appropriations for school pur-
poses have been more liberal. In Ten
nessee they have increased 125 per cent
in North Carolina 100 per cent: In Louis
| lana, 40 per cent. In other of the south
ern states the liberality has been less,
but at the same time it Is encourage
| The efficiency of the schools is also
| increa sing by an improvement in the
teachers and superintendent The es-
| Establishment of normal schools Throughout
| the south IL becoming general and will
enable local boards OF education to secure
more competent teachers. Five years
ago there were less than ~ rural publ,
high schools south of the Ohio and the
Potomac rivers. excepting in Kentucky
| In Virginia there were only ~ hfgf
schools in 1904: i'm 1907 there were
100. In North Carolina In 1900 there were
no rural high schools at all. Today there
are II. In South Carolina there were