The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-03-23
RICHMOND STANDS
HIGH IN EDUCATION
TEEN-YEAR-OLD BOYS IN Sew
ENTH GRADE.
, N TIV ES OF CITY
MOST woRKMEN DO NOT ABIDE IN
PLACE OF THEIR BIRTH
OR SCHOOL En- :.
PERIENCE.

: NEW YORK, March 22-Condi-
tons Of special importance to the in
dustria1 and educational interests OF
Richmond are disclosed by report
of the division OF education Of the
Russell Sage foundation which was
made public today.
During the year the foundation has
been conducting a Co operative invcsti-
CATION with some seventy eight cities
with the object of securing more
adequate fact basis for dealing with
the problems of industrial education
In American municipalities.
The report covers information con-
corning the fathers of school children
in the different cities studied. 1t was
found that only ons~half of these men
are engaged In industries OF the build
ing trades and manufacturing. More
Of them are engaged In the professions
than there are in urskilled labor. The
manual laborers make up less than
two-thirds of all workers while the
mental workers are more than one
third. Foreign born fathers are rela-
lively more numerous among the
manual workers and Americans among
he mental workers but the dispropor-
ton is not very great A large pro-
portion of the workers are engaged
in a small number of occupations. The
occupation employing the greatest
in this group more than one-half of
all the workers are proprietors.
school Efficiency.
When a boy Ia thirteen years old
he has reached the limit IT the com
pulsory attendance period and in order
TO compare the success of the differ
ent city school systems in carrying
children forward the grades before the
law permits them to leave and go to
work. the Sage report shows the pro-
portion of the thirteen-yea boys
in each city who are in OF above the
seventh grade In this comparison
Brockton. Mass, stands at the head
OF the list with seventy seven per cent
of the thirteen-year-o boys in or
above the seventh grade. while Ports
mouth. Va. is at the other end OF the
list with only twelve per cent OF the
boys In or above the seventh grade.
Among the seventy-eight cities studied
Richmond is ranked in the seventy
first place. with twenty-four per cent
OF the thirteen-year- boys in or
a bove the seventh grade.
Birhplaces of Boys and Fathers.
The study shows that in the seventy
now living in the city of his birth and
among the boys only few more than
one-half are now living where they
were born. From the viewpoint Of
industrial education these facts are
significant If present conditions main
tain in the future. the great majority
Of adults are not going TO work in
the same community in which they re-
celvc their schooling. The proportion
of fathers now living in cities where
they we're born varies from less than
one per cent to more than fifty-one per
cent The proportion Of boys still
living in the city OF their birth varies
from twenty per cent to seventy
eight per cent. Among the seventy
eight cities studied Richmond ranks
in the seventy-first place with respect
to the proportion of fathers born In
the city and in the seventy FIRST place
with respect to the proportion Of
boys.
The report Classics the occupations
of the fathers under five headings and
gives the per cent engaged In each
class of occupation. The results for
Richmond arc as follows:
Industries of Fathers.
Rank among
seventy-eight
Industry. Per cent. cities
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