The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1914-08-06

vermont just cNoaAibN'N w pN'NA 49,
Fletcher, follow quite closely the
findings and recommendations made
70 the commission by the Carnegie
Foundation investigators several
months ago.
Findings Reported
The findings of the commission are
as follows;
Teaching in rural schools unsuita-
bic for daily life Of pupils and mostly
preparatory for secondary schools;
Secondary schools still more insult
able and mostly preparatory for insti-
tutions for higher learning, and there
fore, Of benefit TO but one-tenth Of
their pupils;
Length of school term in efficient;
Lack or adequate vocational train
ing for pupils and efficient normal
school training for teachers;
insufficient emphasis on agricul-
ture;
Appropriations to institutions of
higher learning too large according
to states property valuation;
Duplication of effort in U. V. NJ.
Middlebury college and Norwich Uni
versity, which are declared to be pri-
vate institutions and not entitled OF
right TO any stated aid.
Recommendations
The recommendation Of the com.
mission are similarly condensed as
follows:
Consolidation of rural schools;
Establishment of junior high schoo
in every town if necessary to provide
for pupils from II to 16 years o.
age, including the seventh and eight
grades and the first two years of pre-
sent high school course;
These junior high schools to teacl
commercial subjects, domestic science
manual training and agriculture, t
the end that they may be "finishin,
schools for life" in case the pupil goe
no further;
Establishment of as many centra
senior high schools as the number o
pupils shall demand, the curriculum
to include special vocational trainin,
as above and also high-grade course
for pupils from II to 10 years of ag
who may be fitting for college;
These senior and junior high school
to articulate directly with each othe
for the purpose of increasing the per
centage Of pupils who take advance
studies;
Increase school year to SO weeks
which is about the average of tn
country, thus adding nearly two year
to present length of schooling;
Dissolve all specially incorporate
school districts go in number) an
bring all schools under the genera
law;
Instruction designed ito educate
youth toward the occupations of tn
communities in which they live; Thi
is the key note of the whole report.
Strengthen staff and equipment o
state agricultural school, increase ap
preparation and add manual training
No financial aid to University o
Vermont, Middlebury college or Nor
wich university until state has per
fected its full constitutional duty t
public schools and then only in return
for some specific service;
On the theory that teachers traine'
within the state are more valuable
than those trained without, state APP
preparations to be expended by tn
state board through arrangement wit
the state agricultural college to tran
teachers for teaching agriculture i
the junior high schools; also by ar
rangement with Middlebury college t
train teachers for teaching the highe
courses in the senior high schools;
Cooperation in federal extensio
work in agriculture;
Abolish Johnson and Castleton Nor
NAL Schools
Discontinue normal schools at Johr
son and Castleton; and develop train
ing courses in secondary schools
train teachers for elementary school
and earlier years Of junior high schoo
| The report deals very fully wit
conditions at the University OF Vei
mont, about 66 pages Of the 2S4 b.
| ing devoted to careful review Of II
founding and history OF the institI
ton in determining whether it is
public or private institution.
After considering the brief submit
ted by the university, the comnlsslo
concludes that Ira Allen was the PEE
ficient founder Of the institution an
not the state. II finds a parallel
the Dartmouth case, in which that col
poraeon was held by Chief Justic
| Marshall to be private eleenos!
nary institution.