. The public and its school; a statement of the means of finding what the intelligent public expects of children and how a school system may be managed to deliver the goods. test in my presence with a result of 97%.In one school the test given in the grand manner withapparent fear in some of the children secured a result of62 9c- ^Ve then sang together Theres a Light still [11] Numbertested Numberright Per cent,right 30 18 61 30 22 74 30 24 80 30 22 74 29 28 96 29 28 96 30 28 93 30 29 97 30 29 97 29 29 100 29 28 96 29 29 100 29 29 100 burning in the Window and tried an equivalent test,securing
. The public and its school; a statement of the means of finding what the intelligent public expects of children and how a school system may be managed to deliver the goods. test in my presence with a result of 97%.In one school the test given in the grand manner withapparent fear in some of the children secured a result of62 9c- ^Ve then sang together Theres a Light still [11] Numbertested Numberright Per cent,right 30 18 61 30 22 74 30 24 80 30 22 74 29 28 96 29 28 96 30 28 93 30 29 97 30 29 97 29 29 100 29 28 96 29 29 100 29 29 100 burning in the Window and tried an equivalent test,securing a result of 90 %, and immediately after with oneof the same sort we secured 96 %. I give these appar-ently trivial details to support the opinion that, with-out much trouble, our grad-uates can be found by theiremployers to have the abiUtyto spell, write, and figure,and that our schools are ablewithout strain to prepare grad-uates so that the principals canguarantee such ability and sub-stantiate the guarantee by re-cords of actual that is at commandunder trying cir-cumstances is somuch of an assetthat a test by astranger is a valu-able EXAMINING IN THE GRAND MANNER, NOTE THEQUAKING CHILDREN GUESSES AND RESULTS 24. In fifteen cases the test was shown to principalsbefore giving it. Their estimate of the success of theclass in it was obtained. Comparison of estimate withresults runs like this: Principals guess Actual result 100% 73% 95% 42% 90% 73% etc. etc. cipal guessed as low as 73 %. Most principals thought 100 % ought to be expected. [12] VARIATIONS IN SCHOOLS 25. There is no discoverable relation between theresults and the nature of the district of the well-dressed children ranked high and low. Poorneighborhoods showed similar diversity. But schoolsstanding low, tested again, did not reach a high standarduntil more drill on these specific tasks had been giventhan was necessary in schools standing higher. That thegraduating classes
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