Annual Report of the Board of Education Together with the ... Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board, Volume 82

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Page 90 - ... granting of the ballot to the womanhood of America and urges the Senate of the United States to pass at the present session the separate suffrage amendment to our federal Constitution. FAVORS ESTABLISHMENT OF A NATIONAL UNIVERSITY The Association favors the establishment of a national university, the creation of a national department of education under the direction of a secretary of education, and the protection of teachers in all departments of education from unwarranted dismissal by employing...
Page 51 - Every town shall provide and maintain a sufficient number of schoolhouses properly furnished and conveniently located for the accommodation of all children therein who are entitled to attend the public schools.
Page 184 - In all superintendency unions in which any part of the expense of the superintendent is borne by the commonwealth the state board of education shall determine, by examination or otherwise, the qualifications of candidates for the position of superintendent of public schools; and, after the first day of January in the year nineteen hundred and five, no person shall be elected to such position who does not hold a certificate of fitness and competency from said board: provided, however, that this act...
Page xvi - Group I. Cities Group II. Towns of 5,000 population or over ..... Group III. Towns of less than 5,000 population and maintaining public high schools ........ Group IV. Towns of less than 5,000 population and not maintaining public high schools...
Page 37 - It marks the culmination of a process which had been going on steadily for more than a century. It marks the utmost limit to the subdivision of American sovereignty, — the high-water mark of modern democracy, and the low-water mark of the Massachusetts school system.
Page 264 - MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT OF UNIVERSITY EXTENSION. The following tables are taken from the third annual report of the department: Summary of total enrollment of students throughout the Commonwealth according to type of instruction — correspondence, class, and group. The period covered January 19, 1916, when first student was enrolled, to November 30, 1917: Total correspondence enrollment.
Page 50 - ... in no way indicates by whom or by what means such free transportation may be furnished, and comes far short of a requirement that the same shall be provided." State ex rel. Beard v. Jackson (1907) 168 Ind. 384, 81 NE 62; Nelson v. State (1907) 168 Ind. 491, 81 NE 486. When power is given a town to appropriate money "for conveying pupils to and from the public schools, . . . the same to be expended by the school committee in its discretion...
Page 237 - TABLE No. 5. — Earnings of vocational agricultural pupils from farm work and other work during the periods covered by their school attendance and their farming projects. 1 Instructor resigned. Returns not completed by his successor in time to be printed.
Page 97 - To many a woman it would be a revelation to realize that, in her capacity as a purchasing agent, she determines the quantity / and quality of the world's commodities; that what she purchases and from where she purchases determine the very conditions of production, as illustrated in the manufacture of sweatshop goods, of adulterated foods and adulterated textiles, and so on. Hence the attempt to make the girl realize that the wise expenditure of the family income is not only an art to be studied,...
Page 97 - Home economics is a subject that centers around the problems of the home and other institutions whose problems are of a similar nature. It includes a study of food, shelter, and clothing viewed from the standpoint of hygiene, economics and art and a study of the relations of the members of the family to each other and to society.

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