Evening star., 1928-09-09
.COLORED SCHOOLS
FACE ACTIVE YEAR
Opening of First Business
High School and Curricula
Study on Schedule.

With the launching of the Cardozo
High School, the first senior high school
in the United States to be devoted ex-
clusively to the training of colored
youth in business practice. and the
maintenance of close study of the senior
high school curricula with view to
recommending progressive changes III
the existing courses of study, Garnet G.
wilkinson, first assistant superintendent
of schools in charge of the colored pub
lie schools, is confronted with problems
in the coming school year the solution
of which will demand real labor--but
labor tempered for him with the knoWl-
edge that he is pursuing an ideal.
In addition to founding an entirely
new institution and keeping watch over
those already in operation, Mr.. Wilkin-
son this year also must watch closely
the experimentation to be conducted III
the Miner Normal School in the estao-
lishment of a more intensified curri-
cul1m in accordance with the action
of the Board of Education last Spring
in making the District normal school
courses three years in length instead OF
two.
While these three major projects
must be steercd into proper construc-
tive channels during a period OF pro-
gressive pioneering. the assistant super
intendent in charge of divisions lO-l3
of the school system still must carry
forward his routine business OF admin
istering the affairs of his charges.
Hence the year 1928-29 will be one OF
the busiest of his career
Perhaps the greatest single task cor
fronting the administrative stan OF tno
Districts schools for colored youth lle"
in the proper founding OF the Cardozo
High School. 1t is in this work whlcn
Mr.. Wilkinson sees opportunity 1or tMte M
most widesweeping results, tor Wittl
particular attention being given Tor tiie
first time to instruction OF coloreo poys
and girls in business methods and pusi,
ness practice. the Washington school
system will be providing the nucleus
for a future field of colored business
houses and business men.
Enroll Dunbar Students.
Located in the old M Street High
School Building between First strees
and New Jersey avenue, Whlcn until
last Spring housed the Shaw junior
High School. the new Cardozo High
School of business practice Will draw
its first enrolment from the depart
ment of business practice OF the Dun
bar High School, This department
transferred back and forth across the
city many times in recent years peioIe
it was allowed to rest for perloo III
the senior academic hign scnooi VI
divisions 1913, has provided tne Only
business education to washington
colored youth. AS department oi
larger institution, 1t mas peen aCooI osu
the less specific attention usually coh-
! Mr. Will.inson has consistently urged
the creation of a separate senior nlgn
school similar in scope and standing 10
the Business High School of the flrst
ten divisions in the school system ana
last Spring the Board of Education
formally designated the new institution
as the Cardozo High School II. N:
Mattingly was appointed principal ana
a staff of teachers was chosen. BY
moving bodily the old department. OF
business practice from the Dunbar,
student body representative OF the en-
tire four wears of study along with the
evening classes which were organized
for the departmental school, was avail
able
Il regard the creation Of the Car
dozo High School as real challenge 10
the teachers and administrative ofncers
to found an institution which In It's
particular scope will be akin to Dunbar
High School, which today is admittedly
the foremost colored high school any
where" Mr.. Wilkinson said yesterday.
1--WE want to establish at Cardozo not
only an institution where our boys and
girls may prepare themselves for
careers in the business world-almost a
virgin land of endeavor for our people
but a plant where the adult small
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