The School System of the State of New York: (as Viewed by a Canadian.)Warwick bro's & Rutter, 1898 - 204 pages |
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Page 160 - ... in any business or service whatever, during any part of the term during which the public schools of the district in which the child resides are in session...
Page 68 - From this beginning, and holding to it as a permanent interest, the inquiry into causes and conditions proceeds concentrically to the sources of the raw materials, the methods of their production and the climatic, geologic, and other reasons that explain their location and their growth.
Page 12 - It was the unanimous opinion of the association that the interests of education would be greatly promoted by the organization of such a bureau at the present time ; that it would render needed assistance in the establishment of school systems where they do not now exist, and that it would also prove a potent means for improving and vitalizing existing systems. This it could accomplish — 1. By securing greater uniformity and accuracy in school statistics, and so interpreting them that they may be...
Page 47 - Manifestly such areas or units of taxation should be created, or continued if already in existence, as will fully develop the sound American principle, that the whole wealth of the state shall be made available for educating all the youth of the state.
Page 27 - ... 3. To decline to entertain, or to dismiss, an appeal, when it shall appear that the appellant has no interest in the matter appealed from, and that the matter is not a matter of public concern, and that the person injuriously affected by the act or decision appealed from is incompetent to appeal.
Page 12 - This it could accomplish: 1. By securing greater uniformity and accuracy in school statistics, and so interpreting them that they may be more widely available and reliable as educational tests and measures. 2. By bringing together the results of school systems in different communities, states and countries, and determining their comparative value. 3. By collecting the results of all important experiments in new and special methods of school imtntction atul management, and making them the common property...
Page 27 - ... 5 By any trustees of any school library concerning such library, or the books therein, or the use of such books ; 6 By any district meeting in relation to the library or any other matter pertaining to the affairs of the district.
Page 65 - ... organic nature by studying plants and animals, the land, water, and air, and, besides these, the means that man invents and uses to connect each place with the rest of the world — these things belonging to geography. These two "windows" look out upon nature. The three others enable us to see man ; (3) literature and art as revealing human nature, arousing pure and high aspirations in the youth, and freeing him from narrow and mean views of life; (4) the study of the structure of language, as...
Page 42 - No tax voted by a district meeting or other competent authority in any such city, or school district exceeding the sum of five hundred dollars, shall be levied by the trustees until the Commissioner of Education shall certify that the plans and specifications for the same comply with the provisions of this section.
Page 54 - In countries like our own, in which popular initiative in political matters has been the rule, success must usually come by other methods, and in this respect we have much to learn from our neighbors. In Canada the schools have been lengthened to a full school year mainly under the stimulus given by the mode of distributing the government grants. Letters and reports have been received from the different provinces. By these it appears that the average length of the school year was in Ontario 212 days;...