Bisbee daily review., 1914-02-19
TEST INQUIRY INTO
 STATE EDUCATION <
 REVEALS FAULTS
Vermont Selected for Experi-
 ment by Carnegie Founda.
 ton Which Discovers the Needs of the Public Schools

"ceio rouhnatiou lOf tne AL saneement of Teaching. The state selected was Vermont, and the wcrk was undertaken at the request of d jcommittee of the state Legislature, which desired to examine and i'm. prove it's entire educational system
 A summary of the Foundations re tort was made pubic today One of the recommendations is the transfer to the public schools of the money that the state new gives to colleges. The University of Vermont, Middle. bury College and Norwich University. no one O; which k owned or con srolled by the state. have recently | received increasing state aid, total of S20,00O a year in 1909 s50OO0 in 1911, and Sl00,0O0 in 1913. The re- ooIt recommends the withdrawal of these subsidies because Vermont l. cannot afford a regular state uni | sersity; because it Is unwise to give public money and public subsidies wisely. and because they get along very well before they were before they were given state aid ard it Is evident that they will be cared for through private benevolence.
 The report says that the Uniyer- sity of Vermont neglected agricui- ture and used its appropriation for medical schooi that can never be sue cessful with the small amount Of clin- ,cal material that Is available in Bur lington Norwich University used its appropriation for engineering in To- cation and with an equipment far inferior to those or the Universit
 of Vermont, Middlebury College also used its appropriation for subects al. ready provided by the other institu. tions and for a department Tor tram Ing nigh schkol teachers. of which lthe state has already an oyer-supply. The effort to gain ttese subsidies from the legislature, moreover, according to the report involved the institution in an unfortunate educational and fl
 nancial rivalry, the entire education of more than nine tenth of the chil- dren in the state. Half cf the teach CTS, however, have had no proies- sional training and arc paid only nine dollars a week or less. The report recommends that the state spend on the common schools what 1t now gives the colleges and as much more as it can affcrd, giving the teachers better training and better salaries; providing them with more aid an guidance through better supervision and more helpful state administra- | 'ioL. It is recommended that the dozen training classes for teachers | that were established in the high schools in 1910 be multiplied, so that every new teacher in the state shall be a high school graduate with pro graduated more than a hundred such teachers last year, and soon will be able to supply the entire four hun dred that the state needs annually. The two state normal schools, the abandonment of which Is recon. menied. have provided less than a dozen such teachers each year
 lt is further recommended that the teachers, together with a new state .commiss sloner of education. several deputy commissioners and number of supervisors, gradually work out a new program of studies for the schools which, without interfering with it's academic character. will relate 1t more closely to the daily life cf the pupils. 1t is recommended that the high schools include vocational courses; that there be special agri. cultural schools, and that the work of the State Agricultural College be made of greater value to the farm
 CTS. Further school consolidation
 with transportation wherever neces
 sary, is also recommended both for elementary and high schools, so that every community may be within reach of first rate schools insteat of scat tering it's money and care among a large numt CT that are infericr.
 Referring further to the existing sys.em in Vermont, the report says it is very good in many respects.
 The governor recommended such . study as has been made by the Foun
 dation to the legislature and the leg
 islature, in Novembers 1912. consti ] tuted an Education commission with Jrdge John F. Watson cf the Su
 p' eme court, as chairman and repre-
 sentative citizens like Theodore N
 Van president Of the Americah Tel
 eefaph & Telephone ompany, an,
 Fra:k II. Brooks, president of tho
 Fairranks Scale Company, and rep Ieseata,ive educators like Nicholas
 Mur' ay Butler, president of Columbii
 University, New York, as members
 In February 1913 this commission . asked the Carnegie Foundation fol , the Advancement of Teaching to un
 dertake the study, Under, the direc
 ton cf its president, Henry s. Pritch
 ett, a dozen members of the stan o 1 the Foundation and specialists iron
 Columbia, Harvard and Wisconsin Universities and from the United
 states Bureau of Standards devote'