Report of the Board of Education of the State of Connecticut to the Governor: Together with the Report of the Secretary of the BoardLockwood & Brainard Company, 1879 |
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... increase of 929 in the number reported as attending other than public schools . In average attendance there was a gain of 1,486 in winter , and 1,244 in summer , while the average length of the schools was very slightly increased ...
... increase of 929 in the number reported as attending other than public schools . In average attendance there was a gain of 1,486 in winter , and 1,244 in summer , while the average length of the schools was very slightly increased ...
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... increase of corres- pondence and other office work , the number of schools visited and of lectures given is much less than in former years . Five Teachers ' Institutes have been held , at which the attendance of teachers and school ...
... increase of corres- pondence and other office work , the number of schools visited and of lectures given is much less than in former years . Five Teachers ' Institutes have been held , at which the attendance of teachers and school ...
Page 14
... increasing the efficiency of our schools , the Agent and Secretary of the Board have devoted much time to the work of visiting towns and schools . The calls for my services have been more numer- ous than in any former year and more than ...
... increasing the efficiency of our schools , the Agent and Secretary of the Board have devoted much time to the work of visiting towns and schools . The calls for my services have been more numer- ous than in any former year and more than ...
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... increase the number at school . In some other States this method of distributing school money has been tried and with good results . It is obviously fair that those towns and districts that show the highest appreciation of schools by ...
... increase the number at school . In some other States this method of distributing school money has been tried and with good results . It is obviously fair that those towns and districts that show the highest appreciation of schools by ...
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... increase for the year of nearly three thousand dollars . It will be seen that there has been a grati- fying increase in the most essential particulars of the grading of schools , their average length , the number registered both winter ...
... increase for the year of nearly three thousand dollars . It will be seen that there has been a grati- fying increase in the most essential particulars of the grading of schools , their average length , the number registered both winter ...
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Page 43 - ... understand their rights, to maintain them, and to exercise with intelligence their parts in self-government; and all this would be effected, without the violation of a single natural right of any one individual citizen.
Page 13 - Iward and to the general court; shall visit, as often as his other duties will permit, different parts of the Commonwealth for the purpose of arousing and guiding public sentiment in relation to the practical interests of education...
Page 43 - To know his rights; to exercise with order and justice those he retains; to choose with discretion the fiduciary of those he delegates; and to notice their conduct with diligence, with candor, and judgment; And, in general, to observe with intelligence and faithfulness all the social relations under which he shall be placed.
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 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 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 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 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 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.