Public school administration; a statement of the fundamental principles underlying the organization and administration of public education . ahead of their regular grade. entitled Is your Course adjusted to the Capacity of your Pupils? InSchool Education, vol. 34, p. 5. (December, 1914.) From data given in Table 17 of the Report of the Survey of the PublicSchool System of Portland. This table included only those one or moreyears behind or ahead. If half years had been taken a little more favorableshowing would have been made for the accelerated pupils, but a less favor-able one would have resi
Public school administration; a statement of the fundamental principles underlying the organization and administration of public education . ahead of their regular grade. entitled Is your Course adjusted to the Capacity of your Pupils? InSchool Education, vol. 34, p. 5. (December, 1914.) From data given in Table 17 of the Report of the Survey of the PublicSchool System of Portland. This table included only those one or moreyears behind or ahead. If half years had been taken a little more favorableshowing would have been made for the accelerated pupils, but a less favor-able one would have resiilted for the retarded group. 296 PUBLIC SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION This city also requires nine years to complete the elemen-tary-school courses of study. Such a condition as is shownin the second figure is not uncommon in our Americancities/ though perhaps less common than was the case afew years ago. If the conception as to the need of adjusting the courses ofstudy to meet the ever-varying needs of the pupils, as wasstated in the preceding chapter, is a correct one, and moderneducational theory certainly sustains it, then there is need,. Fia. 19. PROMOTIONAL RESULTS IS A CITY FOLLOWING A KNOW-LEDGE-TYPE COURSE OF STUDY, AND WITH QUARTERLY PRO-MOTIONAL EXAMINATIONS in practically all school systems, for a much more carefulstudy of the age distribution of pupils in the schools, with aview to a better adjustment of the courses of instruction tothe needs of pupils. The results of. non-promotion. The result is a greathuman waste. In school systems having such conditionsas are shown in Figure 19, hundreds of boys and girls arenot where they ought to be, and are not doing what theyought to be doing. Boys and girls are in the elementary 1 The Report of the Survey of the School System of Butte, chap, i, and theReport of a Survey of the School System of Salt Lake City, chap, ix, bothcontain much excellent data relating to the age and grade classificationof pupils in cities having much more
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