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Page 7 - Washington meeting of the Department of Superintendence of the National Education Association in 1888. In this address, entitled " Can School Programmes be Shortened and Enriched...
Page 114 - Conducting experiences in English ; a report of a committee of the National council of teachers of English, based on the contributions of 274 cooperating teachers of English, p. 108-116. New York, D. Appleton-Century Co., 1939. 394 p. "A library — classroom, school, or community — is an essential element in experience-centered English courses.
Page 5 - Emphasis on the economy of time ; emphasis on better mastery of subject matter ; and emphasis on the reorganization of the curriculum. The first of these factors has probably been the most potent in bringing about the reorganization that is now national in its scope. In 1903 a committee was appointed in the NEA to investigate the culture element and the economy of time in education. This committee did not report the next year, but in 1905 it recommended that reports be prepared which should consider...
Page 154 - Education and such supplements as the Executive Committee may provide for. ARTICLE VI Meetings. — The Society shall hold its annual meetings at the time and place of the Department of Superintendence of the National Education Association. Other meetings may be held when authorized by the Society or by the Executive Committee. ARTICLE VII Amendments. — This constitution may be amended at any annual meeting by a vote of two-thirds of voting members present. MINUTES OF THE...
Page 108 - ... (2) to avoid gross grammatical errors; (3) to compose and mail a letter; (4) to spell their own written vocabulary; (5) to read silently and after one reading to reproduce the substance of a simple short story, news item, or lesson; (6) to read aloud readily and intelligently simple news items, lessons from textbooks, or literature of such difficulty as "The Ride of Paul Revere...
Page 85 - Vermont, small schools were urged to give up the last two years and to consolidate the seventh and eighth grades and the first two years of the high school into a compact, closely articulated unit — in short, into a four-year junior high school.
Page 50 - Snedden's mind, the question of unit or dual control is not fundamental, .but rather the question: "what constitutes sound pedagogic theories as to the aims and methods suited to vocational education in schools, and secondly, the most effective organization and administration of the means designed to realize them." It has been shown that Snedden draws a distinction between vocational and liberal, or cultural, education, and believes these two forms of education cannot well be carried on together....
Page 86 - New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin.
Page 15 - It will be noticed that the pre-pubescent boys range from eight and one-half to sixteen years of age in the group of country boys, and from nine and one-half to seventeen and one-half for the city boys. The post-pubescent ages range from eleven and one-half to twenty-four for the country boys and twelve and one-half to twenty-four for the city boys. For the pubescent stages the country boys range from nine and one-half to fifteen and one-half, with the mode at thirteen and one-half, and the city...
Page 157 - Discussion: GD STRAYER, Professor of Educational Administration, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY FE SPAULDING, Superintendent of Schools, Minneapolis, Minn. The report of the nominating committee was presented and the following officers elected: President, Superintendent RJ Condon, of Cincinnati; Vice-President, Professor J. Carleton Bell, University of Texas; Member of Executive Committee for the term expiring in 1919, President Dwight B. Waldo, of the Western State Normal School,...