The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1929-05-30
MANY TEACHERS in STATE
WILL STUDY this SUMMER
Estimated One-fOurth to One
third of State Teachers Will
Be Registered This Year

FROM One-IOufLn 10 OIle-IIllru OIL Ine
teachers in the counties of the State
will attend summer schools this sum-
mer, Albert S. Cook, State Superin-
tendent of Education, said Saturday.
Mr. Cook based his prediction upon
report of the county superintend
ents that 1,200 of the white county
teachers and 285 of the Negro teach
ers employed during the present
school year attended summer school
for six weeks or longer in the sum-
mer of 1928.
Many Attend J. H. U.
The largest numbers, more than
$50, attended the Johns Hopkins Uni
versity and the University of Mary
land. Columbia University attracted
over 100 of the county teachers and
the University of Virginia eighty
three. The Normal Schools at Frost
burg and Towson had sixty-fve and
siXty-two, respectively, of the pres
ent teaching staff.
Because all except $50 county teach
ers now hold first-grade certificates,
which means that they are gradu-
ates of a normal school or have the
equivalent in education, and it is con-
sidered desirable that their educa-
ton be continued in colleges or uni
versities, the State Board of Educa-
ton has ordered the discontinuance
of the summer session at Towson, Mr.
Cook said.
Statistics Vary
Of the white county elementary
school teachers in service in October,
nearly thirty-two per cent attended
summer school in 1928. The counties
ranged from fifty-one per cent in sum-
mer school attendance in Cecil and
forty-three, forty-one and forty per
cent in Caroline, Anne Arundel and
Somerset down to eighteen and seven
teen per cent in Carroll and Calvert
counties.
"For the renewal of frst-grade GER
tificates, teachers are required to at
tend summer school once in four
years." Mr.. Cook explained. "Some of
the counties employ large proper
ton of new normal-school graduates
each year, in which case the require
ment for summer school attendance
would not affect as large a proper
ton of the staff as in counties hav-
ing a lower turnover.
Teachers Attend Voluntarily.
Carroll, Calvert, Queen Anne's
and st. Mary's were the only counties
that had less than one-fourth of the
white elementary staff attending sum-
mer school. Many teachers attended
because they wished to broaden their
knowledge of subject matter or to
keep in touch with recent professional
thought in education and not merely
because they were required to attend
to improve the grade of their certif-
cate"
The percentage of white county
high school teachers in service in Oc-
tober, 1928, who attended school dur
ing the preceding summer was not
quite so high, with twenty eight per
cent, Mr.. Cook said. The counties
ranged from fifty-two per cent for
Kent to ten per cent for its neigh
Dor, Queen Anne's. The following
counties had more than one-third of
their white high school stats study
ing last summer: Kent, Calvert,
Prince Georges, Charles, Garrett, st.
Mary's, Dorchester, Allegany and
Baltimore. At the opposite extreme,
Queen Anne's, Worcester, Wicomico,
Anne Arundel, Washington and Fred
erick counties had less than twenty
two per cent of their stats away
studying.
City Schools Open
Fourteen Baltimore City schools
were open during the summer of 1928
for review and advance work, eight
for white pupils and six for colored
schools. This was an increase of one
for white and one for colored over the
preceding year. There were 1850
pupils enrolled in white schools and
2,840 in colored schools. The total en-
rollment in colored schools increased
by nearly LOO pupils, due to the
large increase in the number of col
ored pupils taking review work.
The numebr of colored pupils TAX
ing advance work decreased. The per-
centage of attendance was very high,
Mr.. Cook said. Over ninety per cent
of the white pupils earned promotion
for the summer work taken, and this
also was true for Negro pupils taking
advance work. Of the colored ele-
mentary pupils doing review work,
ninety-one per cent were promoted,
but this also was true of any three
fourths of these colored pupils taking
review work in the demonstration
school and the junior and senior high
schools.
The expenditure by Baltimore City
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