Bisbee daily review., 1919-09-07

junior high schools have been adopt ed by the state board of education. They will go into effect at the start of the new fall term.
 To Cochise county educators goes a large share of the credit for the new minimum requirement, appropri- ate electives and suggested special course~ lists. The committee which reported them to the board at the meeting in Phoenix Thursday con sisted of c. F. Philbrook, Warren dis trict superintendent of schools; Elsie Toles, Cochise county superintendent. and H. E. Matthews, superintendent of Mesa schools.
 Junior high school work, covering grades from the seventh to ninth, in elusive, is especially recognized in the report.
 The committee report with new courses Of study which was adopted as a whole by the board follows: Members of the, Board of Education,
 State of Arizona.
 Gentlemen:
 In compliance with your authoriZa- ton and direction, we, the following members of the committee appointed to revise and redraft course of study for the high schools of Ari- zona which should contain the mini mum requirements, appropriate cleo tives and suggested special courses. herewith beg to submit for your ap- proval our final report.
 Your committee has not been un- mindful of the size of the task with which it has been entrusted, nor has it forgotten that the courses of study in modern high schools are in healthy process of development and transi- tion, not only in our own country, but throughout the world. We have rec ognized also the difficulty involved in formulating the minimum require ments of a course of study which will meet satisfactorily the conditions ob- taining in the various sections of Ar izona Numbers of suggestions havel been received, and we have been di- rected by what seems to be the con sensus of opinion among the school men of the state.
 We have seen fit to recognize the development of the so-called junior high school. Although under the laws of Arizona there does not seem to be any authority for the organiza- tion of this type of school, yet your committee feels there is sufficient au- thority vested in the hoard of educa- tion of the state of Arizona to per init the organization and stimulate the development of the junior high school in those communities where this type of school may be voluntar- fly organized We think that the ef. ficiency and economy which can be effected thereby will more than jus tify the enlarged activities of this body in such support. Consequently, our recommendations cover the work in the seventh, eighth, ninth tenth, eleventh and twelfth grades. or what is known as the junior and senior high schools.
 Proposed course of study for high schools in the state of Arizona. Min imum requirements and approved electives :
 Seventh Grade. hequlred supJects-English, five periods a week; mathematics, five periods a week; social science. fivel periods a week; hygiene, two periods a week. Approved electives-Manual train ing, two or three double periods a | week; domestic science, two or three double periods a week; agriculture, two or three double periods a week; | penmanship, drawing or music, two periods a week.
 Eighth Grade.
 Required subjects-English, five pe- riods a week; mathematics, five pc riods a week; social science. five pc riods a week.
 Approved electives, - Languages: Spanish, French or Latin, five peri ods a week; manual training, domes- tic science or agriculture, two or three periods week; hygiene, two periods week; penmanship, draw ing or music, two periods week.
 Ninth Grade. Required subjects--English, five pc riods a week; mathematics, five pe- riods a week; military training (for boys), five periods week.
 Approved electives - Languages: Spanish. French or Latin, five peri ods week Ancient history, five periods a week Manual training, domestic science or. agriculture. five double periods al  week.
 Commercial subjeets-Penmanship and spelling combined. five periods a week; typewriting, five periods al week. aE
 Music or art. five periods a week.
 Tenth Grade.
 Required subjects-English, five pe- riods a week. military training (for boys), five periods a week.
 Approved electives - Mathematics, five periods a week; modern and med ieval history, five periods a week; science, five periods a week; botany, zoology, philosophy or civic biology, five periods week.
 Languages-SpPnish, French or Latin, five periods a week.
 Vocational ubjects-Domestic sci ence, agriculture or industrial courses, five periods a week