The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-02-28
CONVENTION ENDS
IMPORTANT WORK
National Education Association
Delegates Depart for
Their Homes.

With most of their work finished
yesterday morning. the majority OF tho
delegates to the convention of the De-
partment of superintendent OF the
National Education Association left
Yesterday afternoon and last night
The few who remained will leave to-
day, some going OH an excursion to
Hampton. and others to Charlottes-
VILE Those who go to Hampton will
continue to Norfolk or Old Point, and
take the boats for the North. Stop
over privileges will he given those who
go by way OF Charlottesville, so that
they may have an opportunity of see
ing the University of Virginia.
The convention is declared to have
tory OF the department. Moro than
1000 delegates came and were reg
istered, and there were several hun
dred visitors who were not accounted
delegates, and SO were not registered,
1t was decidedly the largest conven-
ton Richmond has ever had Several
Parties went to the University of Vir-
Ginia, and others went to Williams
burg and from there to jamestown Is-
land, the cradle of the nation" The
women of the convention were enter
tanned yesterday afternoon ut tho Con-
iederatc Museum.
The Department of Supcrintendc nce
held it's last session in the John Mar
shall High School auditorium yester-
day morning. The Work of the Gen
cral Education Board" was discussed
by Wallace Buttrick. secretary, and
Abraham Flexner, assistant secretary
of tho board
Discuss Rural School Work.
elaborated paper on Rural
School Administration" by Ellwood p
Cuhberley, OF Leland Stanford, Jr.. Uni
vcrsity, and T.. G. Elliott. OF the Uni
versity OF Wisconsin, was read The
paper stated that IF our rural and
small village schools are again to oc-
cupy vital place in our national life
and minister to the real needs OF rural
life, they must be fundamentally re-
organized and, rcdirccted, making OF
them new rural institutions ADAPTED to
modern needs. This will involve a
county unit of organization. admins
tration and finances; the election OF
a lay county board OF education.
analogous to a city board of education,
TO select the experts and TO determine
the larger questions of policy and pro-
cedure; the substitution of an appoint
cd for an elected superintendent. and
the reorganization of the county al-
ministrativc Office along the lines of
the best city administrative expert
ence; redirection of the instruction
TO meet modern educational needs; and
the training OF body of teachers for
rural work, who can and VIII rend er
community, as we'll as educational ser :
vice"
The Commission on the Reorganiza-
ton OF Secondary Education closed It's
session yesterday morning with dis
! cussions on The Use Of English Lit
eraturc in Moral Education" and
Health Education and the Bearing OF
Physiological Age Upon the High
School Curriculuni."
The Natiopal Council OF Teachers of
| English convened yesterday morning,
| and held night session In the audi
| forum of the Jefferson Hotel Other
associations which convened yesterday
| FOR one-day sessions were the Con
ference OF Teachers In city Training
| Schols. the National Congress of
! Mothers and Parent Teachers Associa-
tons and the School Garden Assocla-
| tion of America.