Annual Report - Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Volumes 8-9 |
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Page 31 - Schools, and is on the approved list of the Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar of the American Bar Association.
Page 32 - Neither the State nor any county, city, township, town, school district or any other political subdivision shall loan or give its credit or make donations to or in aid of any individual, association or corporation, except for necessary support of the poor, nor subscribe to or become the owner of the capital stock of any association or corporation, nor shall the State engage in any work of internal improvement unless authorized by a two-thirds vote of the people.
Page 129 - I received the degree of doctor of medicine from the college of physicians and surgeons, Baltimore (University of Maryland) in 1896.
Page 116 - ... to that system. While we find much to criticize adversely, we have taken into account the historical development of the system and its very moderate cost at the present time. In view of these considerations, we are justified in rendering a report which in its main outlines is positively favorable. With reference to any school system the important thing is not so much the question, What is its present status? as that other question, Is it moving in the right direction ? It is clear to us that,...
Page 78 - December the bureau conducted a survey of the State University of Iowa, the Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, and the Iowa State Teachers College.
Page 18 - ... and will doubtless permanently remain so. It would seem most helpful, therefore, for the foundation to approach the question from a standpoint as nearly as possible identical with that of the state itself. If it can succeed in a few states, or in one state, in appreciably illuminating the situation in its legislative, administrative and institutional aspects, the results should prove of value not only for the particular state concerned, but by analogy for all states possessing similar conditions.
Page 111 - ... further presents a study of the financial status of college teachers as compared with the situation presented in a similar study published five years ago. The ordinary salary of a full professor in the institutions associated with the Foundation is now $3,000. During the last five years the salaries of instructors have risen by about $80 ; those of junior professors show a gain of from $120 to $225 ; those of full professors show an increase from $125 to $350. The report concludes with a frank...
Page 22 - Enquiry to conduct studies and to make investigations concerning universities, colleges, professional schools, and systems of education generally, to investigate problems of education affecting the improvement of educational methods, the advancement of teaching, or betterment of educational standards, and in general to investigate and to report upon those educational agencies which undertake to deal with the intellectual, social, and moral progress of mankind, and to publish such results as the trustees...
Page 18 - of passive-minded instructors. It Is this localized character of the task of preparing teachers that has finally determined the form of the contribution which the Foundation hopes to make to this subject. Little by little the States of the Nation are realizing the oneness of the educational undertaking which faces them and are discovering that they can expect to cope successfully with it only by creating a skillful and mobile central authority to operate and control the entire undertaking. Of this...
Page 78 - Education, whose special function is the supervisory management of the State University, the State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, and the State Teachers College.