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Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ...First Reader, to be used by the pupils of the second grade, is very desirable and I believe necessary If more reading is to be introduced into the Grammar grades, if the work in drawing is to be continued, and Latin, though optional, put into the ninth grade, it seems to me that it will be necessary to modify the course of study for the eighth and the ninth grades. The work done in drawing by these two grades, under the direction of Miss Brehm, is very satisfactory indeed, and I should be sorry to see it limited to less than two hours a week; but two hours a week means a reduction of onefifth of the time from mathematics. In order to make room for new studies and to prevent the overloading, I recommend that problems in Interest, Present Worth, Partial Payments, Compound Interest and Bank Discount, be omitted from the work of the eighth grade; that the ninth grade limit be to solids in First Lessons in Geometry, and to be Quadratics in Elementary Algebra. The Arithmetic work omitted from the eighth might be done by the pupils of the ninth who do not take Latin, or who do not intend to enter the High School. Your attention has been called to the fact that many pupils leave before completing the work of the grammar school. During the present school year nineteen per cent disappeared from the fourth grade, twenty-three per cent from the fifth, twenty-five per cent from the sixth, twenty-eight per cent from the seventh, and thirty-three and a third per cent from the eighth and ninth. Five years ago the ninth, then the fourth grade, numbered forty-four pupils. Two of that class were all that were left at the end of their ninth year. These figures do not include pupils received by transfer, or those left over from other classes. The ninth numbered ten pupils at th...
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