Bisbee daily review., 1916-10-27
WHAT THE SURVEY OF THE PUBLIC
 SCHOOL MEANS
Data to Be Collected and Given to the United States Bureau of Education.

In connection with the recent visit
 here recently making an inspection
 and survey of the schools in the War
 ren District, it might be well for the
 enlightenment of the citizens of the
 Warren District and especially those
 interested in the work to know a lit
 tie more concerning it's object and
 what it means.
 The study of the schools of the state
 is now being made by seven experts,
 which study will include the elemen-
 tary and secondary schools of the
 cities and rural communities, state
 normals, and the University. The
 purpose will not be to find fault, but
 to find the facts as they are, to inter-
 pret them, to report them fairly and
 make constructive suggestions. The aim of the bureau will be to suggest
 improvements in the general admin
 istrative school system of the state
 as a whole, and no individual criti-
 cism of any nature will be offered. The most of the work will be done un-
 der the direction of A. C. Muerman, specialist in rural school administra- tion. He will be assisted by Dr. J. c.
 Monahan, specialist in rural school education. Mrs. Katherine Cook, as- sistant in rural education, and w. $. Deffenbaugh. specialist in city school education. Next month w. H. Fought will spend a week at each of the two state normal schools, making a study of the work, and Dr. s. P. Capen, specialist in higher aducation, will make the survey of the University. Dr. Dressler. specialist in school building, is inspecting the buildings in the larger towns and cities.
 When the survey is completed re- port will be issued under the personal direction of Dr. P. P. Claxton, United States Commissioner of Education. The members of the bureau staff talk ing part in the survey are all persons of wide experience. MT. Monahan has been with the bureau six years and has had previous to thst twelve years experience in rural. city and college work in Massachusetts. pr. Waterman, after teaching experience, was a school superintendent in Idaho for twelve years and superintendent of one of the largest divisions of the for an additional twelve | years. Dr. Muerman had charge of | surveys such as Wyoming, Nebraska, | Colorado and many county surveys. | He has been with the bureau four | years. Mrs Cook had been a rural | and city teacher. as well as a county | For period she was | State Superintendent of Public h. | struction in Colorado and came to the | bureau from the principalship of a | county normal in Nevada. MT. Deff- | was a teacher and city sup for fifteen years. He had an active | part in the Ogden and Webster Grove | school surveys. Mir. Fought has had | wenty years experience in education | six years of which was at the Kirk | vile Normal School in Missouri at | he head of the faculty on pedagogy | md of the division of rural education | He has been with the bureau four | years.
 The United States Bureau of Edu- .ation will be glad to receive sugges- ions relative to the improvement of the educational system in the state I from anyone in the state. All com should be addressed to Mr. A. C. Monahan, care of the State of Education. Phoenix, Arizona.