The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-03-24

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New York, March 24.-Howard w.
Nudd, director of the Public Educa-
ton association, has come to the de-
fence of the Writ study work-play
plan for elementary schools, after an
analysis Of the report by Burdette r.
buckingham, which placed the ira
ditional schools Of the city first, the So
called Ettinger schools second, ana
the Writ schools third, in relative er-
ficiency. DIR. Buckingham was for
mer1y chief statistician of the Depart
ment of Education and - connected
now with the office of the comm1s-
sioner of education OF wisconsin
The E1ttinger school system was de-
vised by William H. L Ettinger,3 as
sociate city superintendent of schools
in this city. In the report and in Dr.
Nudd's analysis, the Writ schools are
referred to as the Gary schools. VIII
liam H Maxwell superintendent OF
schools, gave out the Buckingham re-
port several weeks ago.
Tlr. Nudd contends that DR.. Buck
/ ingham's conclusionsN were obviously
Iunsound'' and his own analysis OF
the data used by DR. Buckingham
shows he says, that the Gary schools
were better, and that larger per-
centage of the pupils of those schools.
improved in all subjects than in all
! the other schools combined Dr.
y uoo = sea eeiileiie ineiesues 'l'o
lIlg ~. v,,ora favo,.-
able evidence of the satisfactory OPP
Grafton of the Gary plan under recog@
.nized inadequate facIiltles couid rea-F
sonaply pc. expect TED, even en- y iss
Nvarnnest advocates, tllAn ! ense en- en-
ehrouded IN the mass OF sIaelsl l SCI
fgorthsin the buckingham report ~
DR. Buckingham sought to deter
care and ira tional schools
s1ssS syorlzs eitx1 nv Ir1e.as,1rir1s. the
i, era1a,sI > tiiitv of.
ag3sT eighth grade, 7,l1r,ilsg ass
snf,icate5 sf,50 she results Of two tests.
. ssl1ri1ef5 TO- Ia of equal difficuIty. Civ
en- in the regular academic subjects
n, Ada rob sand In I4Ine s7e15 Eight
r,,a1 SCHOOLS taef.l3S in tI,es irorne
AZ = s iz.1,<,,E,rr,ls ~ r,,,.a 80 the t7xt,
1s1-y ana IN E.ttfneey- schools exam
sT7efi 1Uera eeIecfefIs s,sz q basis for. COM
4,a1ison IN order to secure sta pupil
S;1 - E,+ -, t1e ether
colo IF se6aIs,.- rIvI,e sa1,ars1
,.oncI,,sio7,| was that the * trafIifioneJ
schools Tan1refIx fiTsfs the sE,ffinge-
: - 80. .- = 80 - ~, $500
4s,i +1,e FsI,I+
with the tests therefoTe- the. advaT1-
4aeres claimed FOR the cary Mar, would
f,f1vin11slv he omen IN n11esfioy, n, sso
FAR a. thar mart ~ It's nTsoerEa M xxI,icI,
deals with purely academic work is
concerned. II
sfsas4 Of the e-an<raI .f,iI;+xr ~ sew.
entfs and eighth grade pupils would
be regarded. by most school men,
rather as a test of the work Of the
preceding grades, than OF the partic-
ulars grade in which the child hap
pened to be.
Not a Fair Test.
a
+ 5i4i[1,1 s1I -1tl1 e .
week. of the t,st +as+ :, n1.1 siel %
1wasY still in nrocess IF roo = f,7e+,,-,t
during the period in1rnedfatelyl follow |
ing in which the arro7vtT, in af,;1itv
due to the cary Mar, 1vos g,,,,,1osa17 |
uaairaculousIy to take place P,1blic |
school SO. Rrooklvn. was slsh . tra
ditional school m fa vvf+T,iy, 4o,I-
months of the March test. and was |
likewise undergoing reimbursement |
Beth schools also. had suffered farsE
more acuteIy from part time before |
reorganization than any of the other
II schools tested, which meant that |
the children in the Gary schools had /
not previously had as full amount of /
time as other children for regular ac-
adenfc work
: Two Gary schools We're further han
dIcapped by woeful lack of the ply /
slcal equipment recommended by Mr..
Writ and generally regarded as essen
Tlatl to their favorable operation. This
asNls generally known. was due to the
fact that the money originally appro-
pr1ated for Mr. 2Wirt's experiment had
been spent upon equipping thez8ttin-
ger schools In both Gary schools an
annex is needed to provide the shops,
gymnasiums and other facilities
necessary to house the children prop-sI
erly and to enable the program to
work smoothly.
From a purely Statistical point Of
view. morovers DR.. Buckingham's re-
suits are open to serious question. In
the first place. he compared the ay-