The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-07-30
Education Commissions Re-
port Similar to That of
Carnegie Foundation
WOULD ABOLISH ALL
AID TO COLLEGES
Until After Schools Are Put on Better
Footing Than They Are at Present -
Favors Junior High School Idea-Vo-
cational Training Urged.

The Vermont Educational commission
has submitted to the Governor report
which contains PSI typewriter pages and
the printed report of the Carnegie Found
alton upon which the commission S report
IS based The commission goes even fur
ther than the Foundation in its findings
and recommendations. Briefly summar-
lzed the findings are as follows
Teaching in the rural schools unsuitable
tor daily life of pupils and mostly prepara-
tory for secondary schools.
Teaching in secondary schools still more
unsuitable and mostly preparatory for in
stltutlOns OF higher learning and therefore
( OF benefit to but one-tenth of their pupils.
| Length OF school term insufficient
| Lack of adequate vocational training for
pupils and of efficient normal school
| training for teachers
| insufficient emphasis on agriculture
Appropriations to institutions of higher
| learning too large according to states
! property valuation.
Duplication of effort in the University
| OF Vermont, AIiddebury college and Nor
wich university, which are declared to be
private institutions and not entitled of
right to any state aid
| The recommendations of the commission
are similarly condensed as follows:
| Consolidation of rural schools
| Establishment of junior high school in
every town if necessary to provide for
pupils from II to 16 years of age includ-
ing the 9TH and Sth grades and the first
two years OF present high school course.
These junior high schools to teach com
mercial subjects, domestic science, man
ual training and agriculture, to the end
| that they may be finishing schools for
life in case the pupil goes no further
Establishment Of as many central senior
high schools as the number of pupils shall
demand. the curriculum to include special
vocational training as above and also high
grade courses. for pupils from II to II
years of age who may be fitting for col
lege.
These senior and Junior high schools to
artlculate directly with each other for the
purpose Of increasing the percentage of
Ipupils who take advanced studies
| Increase Of school year to 36 weeks,
which is about the average of the coun-
try, thus adding nearly two years to
present length of schooling
Dissolve all specially incorporated school
districts go in number) and bring all
schools under the general law.
instruction designed to educate youth
toward the occupations of the communi-
ties in which they live" This is the key
note of the whole report
Strengthen staff and equipment of state
agricultural school increase appropriation
and add manual training.
No financial aid to University of Yer
mont, Middlebury college or Norwich uni
) versity until state has perfected its full
constitutional duty to public schools and
then only in return for some specific ser
J. vice
i On the theory that teachers trained
5 within the state are more valuable than
those trained without, state appropria-
| tons to be expended by the state board
through arrangement with the state agri-
, cultural college to train teachers for
teaching agriculture in the Junior high
schools; also by arrangement with Mid