Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-31
ALIEN SECTIONS
TERMED MENACE
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/ Department of City and Borough
superintendent of the sixty-ninth
annual meeting of the Pennsylvania
State Educational Association, in his
talk on Educational Measure
ments"
Methods of measurements where
they are used, DR.. Courts told, were
Bolshevikism from beginning to end,
the teachers using just whatever
standards that they pleased in judg-
ing of the capacities of the students.
Such judgment is very discouraging
to the pupils, DR.. Courts told, for
very often the children may receive
, lower grades than they had pre-
viously received and thus cause the
children to become discouraged
when they believe they are making
NO progress, whereas such is not the
{ case.
Technical details of the tests were
discussed by DIR. David Snedden,
professor of education at Columbia
University, in his talk on Problems
of Determining Objective Standards
In Elementary and Secondary
Schools as Preliminary to Use of
Measurements" Leroy A. King, of
the Department of Educational
Administration of the University of
iPennsy ylvania, . olSe on Some Penn
sylvania Statistics OF Standard
Tests"
/ Nominating Committee
AT the conclusion of this meeting
n nominating committee was ap-
| pointed to report at to-morrow's
meeting. Included on this commit
tee are Superintendent w. G. Lands,
of Northampton; Superintendent E.
NJ. Baulsbaugh, OF Lebanon, and
' superintendent Thomas S. March,
of Greensburg.
"Vitalizing the Rural School," by
, DIR. Lee l.. Driver, superintendent of
the Randolph county, Indiana.
schools was one of the more inter-
esting talks at the interesting meet
, ing of the department of county
superintendence. DIR. Driver told
that much could be done in vitaliz-
ing the rural schools by making
them more pleasant with the addi-
| ton of up-to-date school equip
ment which will cause the children
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better Fairgrounds were urged as
one of the best methods to secure
this interest. Attractive and inter-
| esting producing equipment would
/ be needed for these grounds, but
this would not necessarily have to be
, expensive for much of 1t could be
produced by manual training class
, es, DIR. Driver believes.
| The rural school must he n cIaor
ing house, a public forum, for the
community, DIR. Driver believes. To
have it operate as such at it's high
I est efficiency, he declares that rural
I schools should be consolidated.
Schools in the rural communities on
I the average aretoo small and COM
immunity meetings held in them bring
1 together only groups of the small
community which mingle together
even If there are no such meetings.
| superintendent G.. A. Grim, of
! Northampton county, spoke on
! Educational Measurements" and
their use in the schools. DIR. Francis
G. Blair, State Superintendent of
Illinois, spoke on Rural School
supervision" A round-table was held
at the conclusion of the meeting
when some of the more important
questions facing county superinten-
dents, were discussed.
! Plan Athletic Meet
| Preliminary plans were made at
the meeting of the Pennsylvania In
terscholastic Athletic Association for
the holding of an annual track meet
for the various secondary schools
throughout the state. The first such
meeting is planned for the spring
of 1920 and a committee was ap-
pointed to bring the matter before
the general sessions of the Penn
sylvania State Educational Associa-
ton. 1t is planned to have elimina-
tion contests in the eastern, central
and western divisions of the state
and then send the winning teams to
the place for the holding of the an
nual meet. At this meeting T.. f.
Eichelberger, of Lebanon, spoke on
| Reaction of the War Upon Physical