New-York tribune., 1916-02-17
Discrepancy Between Facts and Conclusions OF uckng
ham Tests-Analysis Observation-Disclosures on Hary
and Prevocationa Schools Called Unfair

"A farmers wife bought yards of table linen at sOs yard
and "a Yards Of flannel at yard She paid in butter at SUI
Mound How many pounds of she obliged give?
"A farmer II that average y pounu ean
M w d The milk contains per fat, and butter
fst pound What the daily income o" '
herd?" ~ ,, u
would YOU feel your intelligence measured according to your ability
to them? ., -
mod on these and similar questions worth of school system was
eo Oh h h r And in spte Of questions like above,
Gary which had been running for year got nsne
ALL ademi subjects than the regular schools
given to these buckingham Tests Will not refer them
some one Of authority public school system for criticism
their according modern ideas OF intelligence au
school efficiency? relative percentages history and geography
Gary schools significant The low arithmetic may % 20 M
the light of present day ideas OF arithmetic
Ioeovey the fact schools above 1913 cent
and this one Gary should be criticism of the unreasonable
difficulty the unftness of the tests Sincerely NJ W.
New York City"
DISCREPANCY BETWEEN CONCLUSIONS AND FACTS OF TEST
complete analysis Tests being made for this
and will be published the meantime
would nnt out that there evidence growing feeling
that regardless of the tests there dscrep-
~ we the conclusions reached by Mr. Buckingham regard the
efficiency Gary the actual facts about the schools as
This department has just received
following criticism Of the Buckingham Tests from the Institute %
Public Service:
ATTACK UNFAIR TYPE SCHOOLS.
Figures from statistical measurements of two Gary
Etmger regular schools reveal important discoveries
overlooked by Superintendent Maxwell and Satcan Buck
ngham.
The average progress Gary against
less than3 per cent? the regular schools
In arithmetic half schools showed almost per cent
progress as against regular school making and three
whose average less than 8 per cent
In spelling the Gary against
regular at the end Of the test
period a the beginning
"Othe favorable TO the Gary shos coud
I'm onv subject of the tests or as whole regular
schools can poorer the the eight regular
schools which the Gary schools
yet Superintendent Maxwell announces regular schools
Gary schools stood third
Critically examined the figures simply prove
school by mathematical cal
especially they overlook such vital facts
Gary and Etnger schools selected for x
pertinent unsatisfactory results under the
plan They should be compared if ALL only with the poor
schools of the regular
results Why The with 80 of children
Of poor parentag with with
mostly BIRTH of good homes rather than with
where children have similar home conditions
"ThirdTha takes account of the records of efficiency in the
old the This makes assumption
warranted that differences due only to present organization Of
he
Fourh-That when the questions so
beyond grade example the mark of 10000 children on
questions less than 40 cent and in English 2
per
The experiments being only
portance to the $4,000
education the experiments
u The greatest experiments
watched closely by the school authorities OF the whole
country the number of visitors interfere with the
Of the experimental schools The figures presented are
the Enger schools than they to the Cay
schools
"The report the regular schools
black eve from an unrved decidedly
backth the OF education
A ADULTS.
Ons these follows: "A
tractor completed job 12r days how much longer should
o finish the ob?"
should like similar practical,
consideration of he adult taxpayer and parent
If eight equip school with
slides lantern
bat no lights will take the Gary plan fair trial in
New York;"