Then & Now in Education, 1845-1923: A Message of Encouragement from the Past to the Present

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World book Company, 1923 - 400 páginas
 

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Página 241 - determines, beyond appeal or gainsaying, whether the pupils have been faithfully and competently taught." 6. It takes away "all possibility of favoritism." 7. It makes the information obtained available to all. 8. It enables all to appraise the ease or difficulty of the questions.
Página 127 - The superintendent of schools shall be the executive officer of the board of directors for the management of schools.
Página 48 - It is very difficult to believe that in the Boston schools there should be so many children in the first classes unable to answer such questions; that there should be so many absurd answers; so many errors in spelling, in grammar and in punctuation.
Página 380 - If 248 men, in 5 days, of 11 hours each, can dig a trench 230 yards long, 3 wide, and 2 deep, in how many days, of 9 hours each, will 24 men dig a trench 420 yards long, 5 wide, and 3 deep ? Here the number of days, in which the proposed work can be done, depends on five circumstances, viz.
Página 148 - During all this time parents are relieved of their care.~ The Board of Education, in its building program, is attempting to provide clean, well lighted, well heated and ventilated buildings for all of these children. In addition to being cared for they are taught to work, study, and play together. They are given a chance to learn how to be healthy, how to read, write, and figure, how to make things with tools, and how to use their leisure time. All human progress is brought before them. Their characters...
Página 374 - Those, only, who have themselves been tried in affliction, can feet the full force of this expression. Others may be pleased with the sentiment, and affected by sympathy. The distressed are, at once, pleased and comforted. To be delivered from trouble ; to be relieved from power ; to see oppression humbled ; to be freed from care and pain, from sickness and distress ; to lie down as in a bed of security, in a long oblivion of our woes ; to sleep, in peace, without the fear of interruption. How pleasing'is...
Página 56 - Enrope. 17. What is the nearest route from England to India, by the Cape of Good Hope or by the Red Sea ? 18. What do yon understand by the line of perpetual snow?
Página 292 - Americans for its declaration? 26. What do you understand by an embargo? 27. How many more members are there now in the Senate of the United States than there were at its first adoption? 28. What was the result of the invasion of Canada by the Americans in the last war?
Página 180 - ... 2. There is another sad reflection suggested by these answers. They show, beyond all doubt, that a large proportion of the scholars of our first classes [eighth grades], boys and girls of fourteen or fifteen years of age, when called upon to write simple sentences, to express their thoughts on common subjects, without the aid of a dictionary or a master, cannot write without such errors in grammar, in spelling, and in punctuation...
Página 130 - That group of activities which deals with (1) the carrying out of policies that provide physical, financial, and educational conditions, under which pupil, teacher, principal, and supervisor may work to best advantage ; (2) the provision of channels through which the course of study, general data, and instructions may be quickly and...

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