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WHEELER PUBLISHING COMPANY, 219 NORTH CHERRY ST. NASHVILLE, TENN DR. J. G. FITCH, an account of age, has resigned his of fice as inspector of training college in the English Education Department. Dr. Fitch is in good health however, and, it is thought, will spend his leisure in completing some works on education that have long occupied his thought. No man has done more than Mr. Fitch to promote the rational study of education in England. THERE is at hand the advertisement of a school which em. phasizes the fact that its teachers are supplied from its own graduates; as if its very narrowness were a drawing card. How can there be any inspiration or growth or education power in a school where the same idea has been turning in a circle for the past decade? With a good reason may we look with distrust on any school that draws its teachers largely from one source. No. LI. record of the pupils standing as admirable, excellent, good, fair, poor. The record is based on the teacher's best judgment of the pupils' regular work for the month. At the close of the year, he presents a certified list of pupils believed to be entitled to promotion. With the approval of the principal such pupils are promoted. In grades above the second, if parents demand it, examination is given, and if the candidate reaches the required standard, he is promoted. AN EDUCATIONAL Conference will be held in Philadelphia during the month of July under the auspices of the American Society of University Extension. The programme has been so arranged as to make the meeting of general interest to college men and to teachers of all grades in both public and private schools. The leading feature, however, will be the presentation and discussion of the Herbartian system of pedagogy. This work will be under the direction of Dr. Frank McMurry, Professor of Pedagogy in the University of Illinois. The plan proposes a full discussion of the principles of Herbart with their application to American schools. Full details can be secured by addressing the University Extension office, Philadelphia. REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF TEN. In submitting this report, Dr. Harris very justly says: 'The recommendations of this report will draw the attention of great numbers of teachers to the question of educational values, and this will lead to a better understanding of what the pupil should study to gain the most from his work in school. In this respect I consider this the most important educational document ever published in this country." The report contains 249 pages of printed matter, and represents the combined judgment of near one hundred high school and college men as to the respective values and proper limits of the several subjects of instruction in secondary schools, the best method of teaching, and the relative amount of time allotted to each. It touches the whole school system from the primary grade to the university, and contains matter THE Boston School Committee has recommended depart of interest to every teacher in the land. The common school ment teaching in the grammar school. The committee takes the position that the power and skill of the several departmental teachers will be so increased as to itensify the interest of the pupils and lessen the occasions for misconduct, thereby overcoming the objection that such a system would diminish the power of the teacher in forming character. Principals have been advised to organize departments in their grammar grade, and the results of the plan are to be tested. SUPT. DRAPER has discontinued the use of examinations as a test for promotion in the elementary grades of the Cleveland schools. The teacher is not to mark daily recitations or give stated examinations, but at the end of each month makes a teacher will find especial interest in the recommendations on mathematics, history, geography, and English. The report has been favorably received by the leading periodicals throughout the country; and it seems that a great and permanent step has been taken toward a more perfect organization of our school system. The end contemplated is such an organization as will enable the pupils to pass by insensible steps from the primary grade to the end of the college course. A report of special features is beyond our limit. Each teacher should read the report for himself. It is published by the Bureau of Education, at Washington, and may be had for the asking. |