The Educational Bi-monthly, Volume 11Ella Flagg Young, William Bishop Owen Chicago Normal School Press, 1916 - Education |
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Page 367 - An Act to provide for the promotion of vocational education ; to provide for cooperation with the States in the promotion of such education in agriculture and the trades and industries; to provide for cooperation with the States in the preparation of teachers of vocational subjects ; and to appropriate money and regulate its expenditure,
Page 367 - That for the purpose of cooperating with the States in preparing teachers, supervisors, and directors of agricultural subjects and teachers of trade and industrial and home economics subjects...
Page 367 - States for the purpose of co-operating with the States in paying the salaries of teachers, supervisors, and directors of agricultural subjects, and teachers of trade, home economics, and industrial subjects...
Page 368 - That in order to secure the benefits of the appropriation for any purpose specified in this Act, the State Board shall prepare plans, showing the kinds of vocational education for which it is proposed that the appropriation shall be used...
Page 94 - Association be authorized to name a committee of active members, of which committee the President of the Association shall be a member, to request the President of the United States to appoint a commission to investigate and report upon the condition of the woman on the farm and of the rural home of the United States. Resolved, That the National Education Association...
Page 40 - I have been attentive to the political interests of America. I consider it as a capital fault in all our schools that the books generally used contain subjects wholly uninteresting to our youth ; while the writings that marked the Revolution, which are perhaps not inferior to the orations of Cicero and Demosthenes, and which are calculated to impress interesting truths upon young minds, lie neglected and forgotten.
Page 95 - ... by society to conserve the wellbeing of humanity, and that on this solid foundation all subordinate aims and uses of the school should be made to rest. Assembled as it is in a time of world-wide disturbance, doubt, and uncertainty, and of consequent national concern, the Association affirms its unswerving adherence to the unchanging principles of Justice between persons and between nations; it affirms its belief that the instruction in the school should tend to furnish the mind with the knowledge...
Page 368 - The State board of education, or other board having charge of the administration of public education in the State, or any State board having charge of the administration of any kind of vocational education in the State may, if the State so elect, be designated as the State board, for the purposes of this Act.
Page 95 - Salaries should be fixed so as to insure to teachers a standard of living in keeping with the professional demands made upon them. Retiring allowances or pensions should be provided either by state, or local action. RESOLVED, That the National Education Association gives expression again to the consciousness that the school is an institution developed by society to conserve the well-being of humanity, and that on this solid foundation all subordinate aims and uses of the school should be made to...
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