Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1922-03-03
BOARD SELECTS
NEW SCHOOL BOOKS
FINANCIAL BURDEN ON PATRONS
WILL De SMALL, SAYS The
BOARD.
20 PUBLISHERS REPRESENTED
Board Claims That Best Interest Of
Students Was Uppermost In So
lection for Five Years.

a multitude of text books, the board
of education announced Its selections
for elementary grades of the states
public schools these to constitute the
courses of study for the next five
years.
The announcement was accompa-
MED by statement setting forth
fully the position Of the board in
making new selections and assuring
the people of the state that the best
interests of the students received
principal consideration. The board
has had due regard both for the needs
of the child and the cost of books
to pupils. and 1t has made 1t possible
for the schools to meet the needs OF
the children in large way without
placing any financial burden upon the
patrons.
Twenty different publishers are rep
resented in the adoptions, which are
as follows:
Scott. Foreman company, second
grade arithmetic, language and gram
mar for grades four through seven;
CHM & Co., arithmetic, grades three
through seven; D. D. Heath & Co., fifth
and seventh grade history; Silver,
Burdett & Co., sixth grade history,
music series. grades two through sew
en-: Thompson Publishing Co., sew
enth grade history for one year, fifth
grade history, supplementary, sixth
grade North Carolina history, supple
mentary; Alfred Williams & Co.,
North Carolina history for sixth grade
yohn c. Winston & Co., primary geo.
graphy, supplemental; American Book
Co, Biographies, grades four through
seven; music series, grades two
through seven; Rowe, Peterson & Co.,
primer and reading grades one
through three, elementary science,
grades six and seven
B. F. Johnson Co., primer and read.
ing. grades on through, University
Publishing Co., readers, grades four
through seven; Iroquoise Publishing
Co, spoilers. one through seven
Houghton. Mifflin company, health ed
ucation, grade four; Charles E. Merrill
Co, health education, five through
seven: Allyn and Bacon. civics, five
through seven; Zaner and Blosser Co.,
writing one through seven, A. N. Pal
mer G Co., writing, one through seven;
drawing for grades one through seven
will be furnished by Laidlaw Bros;
Atkinson, Montzer & Co.. and Prac-
tical Drawing Co.
The course of study has been bread
ened and the subject matter to be
taught greatly improved from the first
to the seventh grades, the board an
nounced The text books commission
prepared the outline course Of study
before recommending books in order
TO see the needs OF the school, and the
state board has followed that out in
selecting books.
The pupils to be affected by the
change are divided among the grades
as follows:
First, 214,965; second, 1898; third,
905SO; fourth, s4,662; fifth, 1926;
sixth, 54062; seventh, 1858. making
total of 659,6O3
The children in the first three
grades, 81 IL per cent Of the entire
elementary grades enrolment, will not
be affected materially this year by the
change In text books. But all new
books adopted must become in gen.
eral use throughout the state with the
beginning OF the school year 1928.
The board estimates the effect OF
the change on sixth grade pupils as
follows:
Books that must be changed In 1922:
Geography. cost 1872; health, 96c;
civics, SLIP; total cost new books for
1922. $3.50.
Arithmetic. 75c; history, soc: Ian.
guage. SOC; reading. Use; spelling. 32c;
and agriculture or science, 81; total
s4.24.