Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-03
LONG SCHOOL YEAR
URGED BY TEACHERS
24o Days Maximum Is Sug-
gested at Close Of N. E. A.
Meeting
BETTER TRAINING ASKED
Rv a StoN Corrcapondent

year lenrthened to 2IO days and with
minimum Of 1sO DAYS, was advocated
IN a resolution by the National Educa-
ton Association at the close Of its
convention here today.
I'VE commend the growing tendency
70 lcngthen the school term by adding
A summer quarter for additional edu-
cational opportunity" the resolution
declared.
Conclusions reached by the conven.
tion covered what was described ms
''the supreme need for more profcs.
, sionally trained teachers: the need for
independent control of school funds by
boards Of education: increased financial
support for an enlarged school pro-
gram. and Endorsement of the federal
education bill.
More than half Of all the children in
the public schools Of the nation. one
resolution declared. are taught by
teachers with little or no professional
training.
1T IL of supreme Importance to OBJ
tain for every sChoolroom competent
teacher in hearty sympathy with Ampri-
ran ideals" it was declared Three
. courses were urged to attain that end.
Better Training Urged
The first is for all teachers to cX-
tend and improve their professional
training Another is for all colleges
and universities to encourage students
In enter the teaching profession. The
third is for oil public high schools to
hold up before pupils the opportunity
for patriotic service in n time Of crisis
that teaching offers.
OF the need for increased financial
support n resolution declared
IF the present program Of public
education is to be successfully devel.
oped and in addition a more adequate
program is to be provided. then fully
commensurate financial provision for
public education must be made in all
local and state budgets for the public
schools.
Home. Making Stressed
There must be better training in sue.
cessful homemaking or there will be
social wreCkage according to Miss
Lotta A. Clark. of the Boston Normal
school. who talked today before
conference
The pressing problem for girls. rich
and poor alike. is more successful home
making or more social wreckage." she
said. THE solution of this problem is
education for domestic and social eff
cheney.
School education has its limits Of
possibility and whether they have ever
been approached. the greatest stress
has not been laid so far on the training
for earning a living. Social and do
nestle education are strangely deficient
Yet even in Massachusetts nine. tcnths
OF our girls marry. They have spent
twelve years Of school life to prepare
themselves for five or six years of busi-
ness or college. while they have pre-.
pared little. il any. for the fifty years
more or less. of homcmaking which
they are TO follow afterwards.
Not All Intuitive
THE Campfire program is planned 10
train girls for homemaking and for
social efficiency. The leaders realize
that it Is false reasoning to believe
that because n girl marries she knows
how to make a home, or because q
Young wife has child that she knows
how to care for II. Instincts are
strong. but trained efficient habits
are safer. Thousands Of homes are
wrecked. thousands Of babies die that
could be saved crSir
1T is beyond question then that
Campfire work supplements the eduCa
zion Of girls AT the point most needed.
and not YET sufficiently supplied by the
schools, and does So accordingly to the
most up-tO date methods
This last day OF the convention Is
hllcd with many conferences and dis
cussiOns on subjects including safe
school buildings. the value Of English
properly taught and federal support o
schools
Damp spots Popular
After the announcement Of election
results and the report nf the resOlu
tions committee invitations were re
"eivpd for next wears convention
Nashville. Detroit, Columbus. %. New
Orleans. Chicago and San Fraucisc
sent invitations The choice will b
left to the new pr"sidon' nd executiv
committee.
There was genera. laugh when th
Detroit delegation offered rs an adde
lnducement the close proximity q
Windsor. Canada. with its "splendi
schools and the delegates from Ne,
Orleans emphasized the proximity t
Havana
LaughinGIy DR.. Finegan. Of Penn
sylvania. voted for New Orleans an
Havana
The convention majority voted ia
New Orleans. but the vote will rnur
only as suggestion in the final choirC
The newly elected president n &