Report of the Board of EducationState Board of Education, 1879 - Education |
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... teaching leads to the belief that for no portion of its entire expenditure does the State receive an ampler or more truly valuable return than for the money devoted to the maintenance of the Normal School . No class of children more ...
... teaching leads to the belief that for no portion of its entire expenditure does the State receive an ampler or more truly valuable return than for the money devoted to the maintenance of the Normal School . No class of children more ...
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... teacher . Appropriate buildings , suitable apparatus , wisely arranged systems and courses of study are important , but for good schools good teachers are essential . As it is absolutely necessary for the highest well - being of a State ...
... teacher . Appropriate buildings , suitable apparatus , wisely arranged systems and courses of study are important , but for good schools good teachers are essential . As it is absolutely necessary for the highest well - being of a State ...
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... teach in its schools shall pass a satisfactory examination before the proper officers . In the nature of things it would seem reasonable that examinations of candidates for the office of teacher should be conducted by persons ...
... teach in its schools shall pass a satisfactory examination before the proper officers . In the nature of things it would seem reasonable that examinations of candidates for the office of teacher should be conducted by persons ...
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... teach- ers who never taught before ) are points of gain . In view of the efforts lately made to dissuade the attendance of children under five years of age , and of the fact that many towns have used the authority given them in the law ...
... teach- ers who never taught before ) are points of gain . In view of the efforts lately made to dissuade the attendance of children under five years of age , and of the fact that many towns have used the authority given them in the law ...
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... teacher's duty , or rather his privilege , to visit the parents of truant or neglected children , learn the causes of delinquency and secure parental coöperation . As I have urged this duty , a few teachers have asked substantially ...
... teacher's duty , or rather his privilege , to visit the parents of truant or neglected children , learn the causes of delinquency and secure parental coöperation . As I have urged this duty , a few teachers have asked substantially ...
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Page 247 - An act donating public lands to the several states and territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts " approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two.
Page 218 - That number of persons sufficient to fill the board who have the highest number of votes shall be elected.
Page 227 - Each school district shall choose, by ballot, at the choice1??' , officers. annual meeting, a committee of not more than three persons, a clerk, who shall be sworn, and a treasurer and collector ; who shall hold their respective offices until the next annual meeting, and until others are chosen and qualified ; and any resident of the district so chosen, who shall refuse or neglect to perform the duties of the- office, shall pay...
Page 114 - GENTLEMEN : I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your invitation to be present at the Festival of the Sons of New Hampshire, to be holden in Boston, on the seventh instant.
Page 113 - That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner.stones, polished after the similitude of a palace...
Page 233 - ... with their respective proportions of any excess of the property of such district over and above its liabilities, as ascertained by the town ; or the difference in the value of the property of the several districts may be adjusted in any other manner agreed upon by the parties in interest.
Page 242 - ... have been kept in all respects according to law the selectmen shall draw an order on the town treasurer in favor of such district for a sum of money sufficient...
Page 221 - If only one is assigned, he shall be called the acting school visitor or superintendent, who shall visit such schools at least twice during each term, once within four weeks after the opening, and again during the four weeks preceding the close, at which visit the schoolhouse and outbuildings...
Page 115 - Clinton a still more inviting place of residence. 3. The officers of this Association shall consist of a President, a Vice-President, a Treasurer, a Secretary, and an Executive Committee of fifteen, six of whom shall be ladies.
Page 229 - ... fix or change the site of a schoolhouse ; but if such twothirds vote cannot be obtained in favor of any site, the school visitors of any town adjoining the town or either of the towns in which such district is, on application of the district, shall, after conferring with the school visitors of the town or towns in which such district is situated, fix the site, and make return to the town clerk of the town in which such site is located ; and shall receive a reasonable compensation for their services...