Annual Report on Public Schools in Rhode Island, Том 11846 |
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Страница 150 - Any person conceiving himself aggrieved may appeal or petition to the commissioner of education who is hereby authorized and required to examine and decide the same; and the...
Страница 145 - When two or more districts shall be consolidated into one, the new district shall succeed to all the rights of property possessed by the annulled districts.
Страница 120 - ... 4. To adjust and decide, without appeal and without cost to the parties, all controversies and disputes arising under this act, which may be submitted to him for settlement and decision; the facts -of which cases shall be stated in...
Страница 31 - ... children of the same age from families of the most diverse circumstances as to wealth, education, and occupation. Side by side in the same recitations, heart and hand in the same sports, pressing up together to the same high attainments in knowledge and character, will be found the children of the rich and poor, the more and the less favored in outward circumstances, without knowing or caring to know how far their families are separated by the arbitrary distinctions which divide and distract...
Страница 170 - ... comfort and convenience of the scholars, and the easy supervision on the part of the teacher. The seats are too high and too long, with no suitable support for the back, and especially for the younger children. The desks are too high for the seats, and are either attached to the wall on three sides of the room, so that the faces of the scholars are turned from the teacher, and a portion of them at least are tempted constantly to look out at the windows, — or the seats are attached to the wall...
Страница 124 - Provided, that unless with the approbation of the commissioner of public schools, no new district shall be formed with less than forty children, over four and under sixteen years of age ; and that no existing district, by the formation of a new one, shall be reduced below the same number of like persons ; And that no village or populous district shall be subdivided into two or more districts for the purpose of maintaining a school in each under one teacher, when two or more schools of different grades...
Страница 63 - This grade of schools should be furnished with class-rooms for recitations, and if large, with a female assistant for every thirty pupils. 3. High Schools should receive pupils from schools of the grade below, and carry them forward in a more comprehensive course of instruction, embracing a continuation of their former studies, and especially of the English language, and drawing, and a knowledge of algebra, geometry and trigonometry, with their applications, the elements of mechanics and natural...
Страница 57 - In the mean time the order of the school must be maintained, and the general business must be going forward. Little children without any authorized employment for their eyes and hands, and ever active curiosity, must be made to sit still, while every muscle is aching from suppressed activity...
Страница 115 - ... town or district in which such district is situated, by setting up a notice of the time, place and object of the meeting in three public places in the district, at least ten days previous ; and it shall be the duty of said committee to call a meeting at any time on the written request of any five legal voters of the district. SEC. 3. At any meeting duly notified, the inhabitants of the district qualified to vote for a tax or on the expenditure of money in the town in which such district is situated,...
Страница 96 - THE TEACHER'S MANUAL, by Thomas H. Palmer. Boston: Marsh, Capen, Lyon & Webb, 1840. pp. 263. Price, 75 cents. This work received the prize of five hundred dollars, offered by the American Institute of Instruction, in 1838, for " the best Essay on a system of Education best adapted to the Common Schools of our country.