Public school administration; a statement of the fundamental principles underlying the organization and administration of public education . ass. To meet the needs of these different classes of childrencertain adjustments and differentiations in courses of studyare desirable, in order that each child of school age in thecommunity may find work in the schools suited to his powers. The following figure shows the condition existing in a city ^ From data obtained from a survey of the schools of Owatomia, Mimie-sola, by Superintendent W. B. Thornburgh, and published in an article ADJUSTMENTS AND DI
Public school administration; a statement of the fundamental principles underlying the organization and administration of public education . ass. To meet the needs of these different classes of childrencertain adjustments and differentiations in courses of studyare desirable, in order that each child of school age in thecommunity may find work in the schools suited to his powers. The following figure shows the condition existing in a city ^ From data obtained from a survey of the schools of Owatomia, Mimie-sola, by Superintendent W. B. Thornburgh, and published in an article ADJUSTMENTS AND DIFFERENTIATIONS 295 where the courses of study and the promotional plans havebeen adjusted to meet the needs of the great mass of figure shows that the courses of study are also wellbalanced between the needs of the gifted and the slow, aspractically the same percentage of accelerated and retardedpupils are found in the schools. This represents what maybe said to be an average, and a tolerably satisfactory con-dition. In an average school of 400 pupils in such a schoolsystem, 281 will be advancing regularly with their Fio. 18. PROMOTIONAI, RESULTS IN A CITT FOLLOWING A COUKSEOF STUDY ADJUSTED TO THE AVERAGE CAPACITY OF THE PUPILS 58 will be ahead of their regular grade, and 61 will be moreor less retarded, due to one cause or another. A poorly adjusted course of study. Figure 19 shows acondition in a city ^ where the courses of study, or the pro-motional examinations, or both, have not been so adjustedas to permit of the normal progress of a large percentage ofthe pupils in the schools. Here one child in four is not ableto advance with his class, some being two, three, and fouryears behind their proper age grade, while but eight chil-dren in a thousand are one year 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 S
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