Evening star., 1923-08-18
STANDARD SCHOOLS
IN CAPITAL URGED
National Body to Aid in Cam.
paign to Improve Edu-
cation Here.

The Districts public school system
as a standard for all the schools OF
the nation is the aim OF the National
Education Association, according to
Miss Olive NJ. Jones, newly elected
president of the organization, who is
in Washington on her first visit since
heading the great educational body.
With the cooperation of Supt.
| Frank ". Ballou the association, Miss
Jones said, will strive to secure dur
ing the coming scholastic year greater
appropriations for the educational
! needs of Washington. which will give
higher salaries to the teachers and
provide adequate accommodations for
the pupils.
Miss Jones believes that the great
| est and most efficient public school
organization in the country should
be located in Washington. She also
| holds the opinion that the local school
system should be the experimental
ground for ideas which will make for
educational advancement in the
United States.
AS an advocate of a board of edu-
cation chosen by the residents of the
District Miss Jones also believes that
the franchise should be granted the
city. There is great lack of what
we call elf-determination' in the Dis
trict" she said. Every inhabitant
should have voice in the affairs of
/ the city and especially in the admin
iStratiOn of its schools.
Plans of the National Education AS
sociation to support the District
school system in its betterment pro-
gram will be outlined to Supt. Ballou
| in the near future.
! support of Campaign.
| Commenting on the statement of
| Miss Jones. Robert L. Haycock, act
| ing superintendent of schools, said
today:
THE announcement by Miss Olive
N. Jones, president of the National
Education Association, of an effort
to make the Washington school sys-
tenn model for the schools of the
United States should be a matter of
large interest to every resident of
the National Capital Last year and
again this year the association voted
its support of DR.. Ballou's campaign
for the development of our school
system into nothing short of the very
finest in our land.
Educators of national repute are
backing the movement. because the
setting of the highest and best edu-
Cational standards in this city, with
the support of the national Congress.
Will have a far-reaching effect toward
elevating educational ideals in every
state.
Present Problems.
"PrChlemS of serious Importance
are confronting administrative school
officials everywhere. Most of these
problems grow out of the vast chang
ing social conditions that have arisen
especially during and since the war.
THE lack of school accommodat tions
and the undermining of old insanitary
buildings; the increase in the salaries
of teachers, which should give rise to
d higher professional training and
standing; problems growing out of the
rapid rise of the modern high school
and the more modern junior high
schools; the revamping of the entire
school curriculum in it's relation to the
rapidly changing social order; the de-
velopment of department of research
and measurement. which should place
our educational procedure upon a more
scientific basis; the reorganization of
school administration in order that
school management may become more
businesslike and efficient. These are
few of the large problems that loom
up at this time.
THE National Education Association
wants to see Washington, with the sup
port of Congress, lead the country in
working out big educational problems,
to the end that the entire nation NAV
look to this city for models and plans
for the improvement of the schools.
DIR. Ballou. who is an educator well
known in the highest educational coun-
ellis, is well fitted to take the leader
ship in this extensive program. He
viii have the help of a strong corps
OF administrative officials and a BODY
of well trained competent teachers.
With the National Educational official
heads urging financial and legislative
support, and with the organized citi-
zens' associations and parent-teacher
bodies of this city lending their CO.
operation, it is believed that during
the next session of Congress a large
part OF this program may be launched, -