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Title: The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : Scientific American Compiling Dept.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ning school with a shortcourse of study. The place — a village whichwill give over its schools to this normal trainingschool for practice schools. These practiceschools, organized as primary schools in oneroom and as grammar schools in another, willshow what can be done with schools in the sim-plest form of gradation. For a part of thecourse all the grades should be brought togetherto illustrate the work of the one-teacher school,such work as should be done in the ungradedschool. The conditions and demands thus set forthby the report of the Committee of Twelve wererecognized by educational men as existing. Thecounty training school has come into existenceto meet these demands. The first schools ofthis kind in the United States were establishedin Wisconsin, in 1899. IVisconsin Plan.— The County TrainingSchools were established under a State law au-thorizing county boards to appropriate moneyfor the establishment and maintenance of thisclass of schools and providing for State aid to
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O O H2 a SCHOOLS such schools to the amount of one half of thesum expended yearly for maintenance, but Hm-iting the sum to be paid annually by the Stateto any one school to $2,500. The local manage-ment of each school is vested in a board oftliree members. Of this board the county su-perintendent of schools is ex-officio a memberand secretary; the other two members areelected by the county board of supervisors. TheState Superintendent of Public Instruction hasgeneral supervision of these schools, prescribesthe courses of study to be pursued, and deter-mines the qualifications of the teachers employedin the schools. The schools must be maintained10 months each year and the scope and charac-ter of their work must be such as to meet theapproval of the State Superintendent, in orderto receive State aid. The certificate of gradua-tion from the prescribed courses becomes a legalcertificate of the third grade, good for threeyears within the territory comprising the train-ing school district.

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