The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-08


 Seven hundred home gardens were started in Port Ewens N. Y., this year under the direction of the school au-
 thorities.
 ] Every. high school graduate in Ne bras4xa receives a letter from the Uni versfty of Nebraska. congratulating g him on his graduation and urging him to consider the advantages ofEered by the State University.
 A vocational summer school, with practical men and women in charge of it, is in operation in Baltimore Md, this year. Printing and woodwork are the girls have cooking. sewing, and other. household branches.
 The National Kindergarten College. in Chicago, is devoting a large part of ibs summer program to the methods of pr. Montessori. Two Of Dr. Mon tessori's graduate students, who have spent over a year with her in Rome, have charge of the practice work with the children,
 School children and teachers of Pointe coupee Parish, in the flood dis trict of Louisiana, planted 15,0o0 fruit and pecan trees last year. Supt Tru- deau has also a plan whereby road work in the. parish will be done by school boys.
 Students at the Georgia State Nor maI School at Athens, Ga, study rural sociology as applied to their own dis- tricts, so that when they go out to teach they know the opportunities and needs of the locality better than those who have lived in 1t all their lives How this work makes for community betterment is told by B. c. Branson in a Bulletin just issued by the United States Bureau of Education.
 The co-operation of the Bureau Of Education and the Phelps-stokes Fund is the result of the close relationship of the representatives of the Slater in the South, and the trustees of the PheIps-Stokes Fund, with each other and with Commissioner Claxton- Through this CO., o-operation unnecessary duplication is avoided and time, effort, and money are saved.
 The work is done under the in1me- diate direction of pr. Thomas Jesse Jones, a native of Wales and a natu- ralized citizen Of the United States, who was educated both in Southern and Northern institutions, and has de- voted a number of years to the educa-
 
 Negroes in the United States. His studies and observations, extending over several years in the Census Blu reau and in the United States Bureau of Education, will be especially useful in this study of schools. An exnaus- tive schedule of questions in regard to the schools has been prepared with much care and is being filled by pr. Jones and those associated with him, after careful investigation of the schools made by them. These ques- tions relate to the history of the | their present condition, their their religious and so- ciaI activities and the work of grad .1ates and former students. Attention | will also be given to the relation of the schools to their communities
 When sufficient data, have been col lected a report will be printed and published giving a, brief but accurate survey of each school, of it's equip | ment, it's work, and it's place in the system of the city, county or State in which it is located.
 The U. s. Bureau of Education in cooperation with the Phelpe-Stokes Fund is now making a comprehensive study of the private and higher schools for colored people. This study is un- dertaken in response to numerous and demands for knowledge of these schools. the number, of which is constantly increastne