The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-12-30
SECONDARY
EDUCATION
PROMOTED

Blythe General Board Of Educa.
ton Founded by John D.
Rockefeller.
NEW YORK. Dec. so.-what ha.
been Done by the general education
board to promote secondary educa.
ton In the south is summarized il
an instaliment made public today q
the Forthcoming report OF the hoard
!ihe report says in part, after review.
ing the situation surrounding sec
ondaiy schools: !
Tho general education board
stated its Willingness to make ap:
proportions to the several stat.
universities for the salaries and
travelling expenses Of professor OF
secondary education who was to be
9 regular member of the uniyersity
faculty and whose main and prin.
Ecipal work shall be to ascertain
where the conditions are favorable
TOR the establishment OF public high
schools not now in existence; to visit
such places and to endeayor to or.
ganize In such places public hi,\,
schools in accordance with the laws
OF the state; to endeavor to create
in such communities q public senti.
ment that shall permanently sustain
such high schools. and to place the
nigh schools under such local lead
ersnip as shall give them intelligent
and wise direction, and he and the
university shall exercise a fostering
care over such Institutions
Consistent with the policy OF the
general education board, these pro-
fessors Of secondary education be-
came state and university officials,
answerable to their state and unit
versity snperiors and to them alone,
The board did not dictate or suggest
the lines along which they should
exert themselves. The general edu-
cation board was satisfied to provide
the necessary funds which would
enable the state university, the state
department of education, the high
school representative, and other in
terested agencies to work out tao
local problem In whatever way their
own Judgment approved.
"rhe first contract Of this charac-
ter was made in Virginia, in 1905;
the latest In Kentucky, in 1910. Co
operative work in this field is now
under way in the following eleven
states: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida,
Georgia. Kentucky, Tennessee, Miss
issippi. North Carolina, South Caro-
line, Virginia and West Virginia. In
Louisiana, the work begun by the
board in 1907 has now been taken
over by the state.
Since the appointment OF the
professor OF secondary education. &
] a four-year high schools have been
established in Virginia, 10 in North
Carolina; Is in Georgia, SO in Ala
bama, 81 in Tennessee. is in South
u in Florida, 50 in Miss
issippi. 4 in Arkansas, Is in Wessc
Virginia. Three-year high schools,
many of which will shortly add the
missing year. are numerous: Georgia
has started 1872. North Carolina 100,
Arkansas Al, Virginia 146. West
Virginia ". Tennessee 81, South
Carolina SS, Alabama 90. Florida IA.
with this development. the en-
rollment Of pupils has Kept pace.
The high schools OF Georgia enroll
20, 900 pupils: those OF Ala q ma
over 10000 boys and girls; those OF
Mississippi over 10000; North Caro-
lima, $500 in the country, and 5000
in towns; Virginia. over 1s, 900. In.
Kentucky there has been an increase.
in attendance Of 1000 in three years.
In the final year OF the four-year
high schools. the enrolment is, or
course, still modest: $50 in the rural
high schools and $50 In the city high
schoola Of North Carolina; 40 in
South Carolina; 1,143 in Arkansas;
in Mississippi. about 1000; in Gaor-
Ria. 1.241: in Tennessee, us; in
Virginia. 1913; boys and girls are
included in all these figures.
1.-THE number Of full-time high
school teachers teachers not die
tracted by having to do also odds
and ends Of primary works keep
ing pace: South Carolina employed
100 in 1906. and 412 in 1913-=a
gain OF almost 100 per cent, indica-
tive of a far keener appreciation OF
the Importance Of an adequately
trained teaching body. for more and
more Of these full-time teachers are
college graduates.
Sin the same way Tennessee em-
ploys 393 full-time teachers in tho
III four-year, three-year and two
year high sehools established since
1a05; Arkansas 106 in the 90 high
schools set up since 1903. In Gepr-
gia full-time teachers increased
from 14a to AZ between 1906 and
1914.
lin this same period very consid-
cradle sums have been invested in
new school buildings Of improved
type; $1.75o.0g6 in North Carolina.
81, 500 900 In Florida. 81. 26S ,Oao In
South Carolina $1,000, c e1Sc III Miss
issippi. a little under $4,000. 600 in
Tennessee. about 100000 In West
Virginia. more than $3,000,000 in
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