Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-05-12
10 OPEN AND MAINTAIN lNSTl.
TUITION INCLUDING ALL De.
PARrMENTa
ADJUNCT TO rEAcHERs'
COLLEGE At CEDAR FALLS
Teachers to Be Trained in Everything
From kindergarten to High School
Work IN Model establishment = Re.
cent School Legislation Already Bet
tsrins Rural Conditions.
Special to Time..:Republ,can.


Des Moines. May 12.--The state Of
Iowa will open next September and
maintain regularly model school in
which will be tried out all the best
there is in modern educational mat
tiers. from kindergarten and the
Montesorri system to the high school.
and In which teachers will be trained
to do actual work by experience.
The state Of Iowa will. in fact, con-
duct ward school complete and I'M
dertake to show the very best results
possible.
This is the new s150,oOo training
school for teachers" at Cedar Falls. 1t
state teachers college by the state
board Of education at cost of s150.OO0.
The legislature last month made an
appropriation to equip the building for
school purposes and the board Of edu-
cation is now making contracts for
this.
Members Of the board Of education and
the finance committee last week made
informal inspection Of the new build
ing and found it to be all right. 1t is
cement roof with red tile. There is an
abundance Of rooms for the work. 1t
is complete in every way. The work.
to be done here will be the regular
work of the Fourth ward in Cedar
Falls, but the school will be absolutely
under the direction and control of the
state teachers college. The school dis
trict will pay the state a tuition for
81 nrf
amount to about $4,000 year. That
is declared to be good bargain for the
school district and satisfactory to the
state.
It is here that teachers who are
practically ready to go out into school
work will be given practical training
in the school room under the tutelage
Of critic teachers. 1t will be sort OF
trying out place under the most favor
able conditions. There is no other IKE
it in the state and 1t is believed that IT
will be valuable. addition to the
equipment Of Iowa Tor training teach
ers.
State aid and announcement Is
great stimulus to betterment OF the
rural schools in Iowa.
lready half dozen cancellations OF
rural districts for the purpose Of hav-
ing better schools have been practical
~ decided on since the legislature
passed the Pickford bill to give state
aid.
state Superintendent Deyoe has
been kept busy attending to this
movement for consolidation and i'm
proved schools and for provisions Tor
teaching agriculture. domestic science
and manual training. He has been
called to a number Of places in the
state for consultation and the move
ment has only fairly begun. He says
1t augurs we'll for great activity In this
line all the season.
But something published in connec-
ton with this meeting of teachers OF
manual training in Des Moines may
give wrong impression as to the Iowa
law" he said. 1T is unfortunate that
the impression should be given out that
Iowa has made a great blunder in not
providing, for special teachers In all
the rural schools and supervisors and
all that sort of thing. Iowa has not
made any mistake in the matter. re-
CARELESS Of some specialists who can
see only one side Of the case. What we
want and what Iowa will have Is teach
ers competent to impart this practical
Information to the young folks. II we
wait until rural districts can be pro-
vided with supervisors and specialists
we will never get anywhere. Iowa is
on the right track"
Wherever the consolidation idea has
taken hold the school patrons are pre-
pairing for excellent equipment and de-
sire to start right.
Dr. A. E. Kepford has caused to be
sent to the chairman Of every board
Of supervisors in the state and to sec
retaries Of all health boards copy of
the new law regarding the power Of
county in the matter Of providing for
the care of INDECENT victims Of tubercu-
losis. 1t is desirable that this new
law be fully understood at once, as In
many counties arrangements are now
being made for the summer campaign
in fighting the white plague.
Under this 1t is contemplated that
boards will enter into agreements with
associations for conducting camps for
tuberculosis patients and will pay for
the support Of the patients. leaving