Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-31

supervising principal Miss Janet Nc
William, supervising principal, and c..
David Houston. principal OF Arm
strong Technical High School.
Two Changes In Board.
Two changes were made on the
Board of Education during the year.
Henry Gilligan was named by the Dis
triCt Supreme Court judges TO sue
coed Ernest Greenwood. while Mrs.
Mary A. MCNEIL became the success
sor of Mrs. Coralie +. Cook, who had
declined reapppointment after sery-
ing longer on the board than but one
other single member.
High school athletic circles were
elated during the year over the aboli-
ton by the BoarL of Education of the
two-sport rule. which had confined
high school pupils from participating
in but two sports each school term.
The board also voted ~ new high
/ school uniform. which is expected to
make the cadet corps more Tnilisary
in appearance in the annual com
petitive drill next June.
Two movements Of note were in
itiated during the year, both of which
are still under consideration by school
officials and members of the Board Of
Education. one is the study OF the
| normal schools with a view of adopt
ing rules for the purpose of making
the enrolment requirements more
stringent, while the other is the cam
paiGn to beautify the grounds of all
school buildings in Washington.
Engineer Commissioner Bell is Cos
operating with the school officials in
the latter movement and n committee
has been appointed to impress upon
| Congress the need for a landscape
| ayohitnnt tNhn ts-i1I 1aVntn all Gf hiC
time to the improvement of school APP
proaches and Fairgrounds.
Classification Work.
important strides were made dur-
ing the year in the work of the re-
search department in Redistribution
of pupils Miss Jessie La Sale and
Howard Fl. Long have demonstrated
that the policy of grouping pupils ac7
cording to their intellect is entirely
practicable and are carrying this work
forward to a remarkable degree. 81
Perhaps in no previous year has
there been the perfect cooperation be-
tween the school officials and the
Board of Education as during 1925.
| Clashes which have marked meetings
of the Board of Education in former
years have been conspicuous by their
absence during 1926. Y
| school officials during the year In
classroom supervision as well as In
| the revision of the curriculum. While
| the work being done along this line
| is not thoroughly understood by the
| public, it nevertheless is going a long
way toward increasing the efficiency
of the school system.
School Critics flushed.
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been, in a large measure, hushed dur
ing the year due to the frank atu-
tude toward the public which has
been taken by the Board of Education.
AS an evidence of its desire to be re-
sponsive to the desires of the parents
| in the school system the board con-,
Quoted q referendum on the question
of whether school hours should beS
heightened or home work abolished
or both. AS was expected by school
officials the referendum, in which The
Star co-operated with the board,
showed that a vast majority of the
local parents are content with the
present school hour schedule.
Two untoward events marked the
school year. One was the strike at
the Armstrong High School which fob.
lowed the demotion of Capt. Arthur
G.. Newman, principal. while the sec
ond was the decision by Controller.
General McCarl relative TO salaries of
certain junior high school teachers
which, if carried out, would work a
hardship on a number of teachers in
that group. Final disposition of the.
latter matter has not yet been NADER