Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 15, 1925, Page 47

DAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1925 BY YOMING CLIMBS IN STATE EDUCATIONAL RA ae TATE 1S NOW IN TITH PLAGE Standardization Work | In Schools Wins Advancement. By KATHERINE A. MORTON, (tate Superintendent of Pudtic Tnstruction) How satisfactory tt ls to write an tole when one has good news to 1. Wyoming's educational rank ong tho states has risen { 3 H i#is to at t Tn 1918 Dr iP. Ayres of he Russell andation com: Ned statintl vering ten points garding school endanca, length term, echoo! coxts, eto, In the final compilation each state was wen an index nm or—and Wyo fiing’s number was Yow 28 In the ng phrase of tertay meant «peed. eed certain) been shown, 1 e@ December number of the Amert Sohool Boant Journal appears article by Dr, Frank M. Phillips George Washington Uhiversity tn Which Dr, Phillips presente tables howing the ranke of states not only the ten points previously consid. d in the Ayres compilation but Pother points as well. Tn the points covered by the inves tion of 1918 we have risen from nk 23 to rank Ii in four years he atates ranking above Wyom! re Califor New Jersey, Ohio, indiana, Was et New York, Ne vada, Arizona, igan and Mon a tn the order named. Publio Aids Movement, The improvement in our sohools ts Rruty remarkab’e and could have Sheen caused by no other reason than he desire on the part of the people Ro give to their children the best education possible Bince 1922, our school system has Advanced in many respects. In 1922 uur Bigh school enrollment was 5,763 in 1924 it ts $311, This has happened In apite of the fact that the major ty of countios show a decrease tn he number of children of school . Many peeople have left the state during the past two years, It is pat wat that the pecple remaining have Mecided that a high achool educa jon ta necersary tn this way and age. MFrom the ranks of these 8,311 boys nd giria will come the leadership for the affaire of Wy ng’a tomorrow. for they are a highly selected group Doth as to mental ability and wocial status, The Parchools of standard reased from number has tr rura “4 heat Peoe In thts care | Before and After ‘The old (lower) and new (upper) Paint Creek rural school fn Park County, now a standardized Institution, 1922 to 141 tn 1924. Platte county leads the etate fn this regant hav. ing more s#tandant rural achools than any other county and che Wheatland district leads all other districts, In every state the towns and cfties provide adequate advantages but the o said for all rural reason atate departments of od tion tm every state are trying to Dring to a higher standart those rural schools which menace health or are without adequate equipment or qualified teachers, The figures given above show that Wyoming has made a good beginning Consolidations Effected. This year 3,922 bhiltren are be ing Uansported, Several rather ex tensive consol Hn prefecta are © counties except Crook, Hot Springs, Johnson and Te. ton are now transporting children, The number of high schoo! normal training classes has Increased in the last two years over 200 per cent— from 13 to $1, These classes ahould nish the state with about 250 Wy. oming trained teachers familiar with our conditions and able to give fall value to our schools, Teachers from o of state unfamiliar with Wyo- ming ranch conditions have often ac- cepted positions only to give them up after a few weeks trial because the {solation Wyoming fo! S seem to approve Yas of yooational work. Last year ap- proximately 1,000 pupils were taking commercial work, part of them def- initely training to be bookkeepers, Stenographers arid office workers and part of them because they be: Meved such knowledge would be of value to them In other Ifnes of work 1.100 girls were taking courses tn home making classes, © There has been tremendous growth in the Smith-Hughes classes for whioh fed Che Casper Daily Cribune PAGE NINE he eral ald ts given unéer the direction of the state department of educa tion, The classes Include work tn agriculture, trades and home eco nomics, In two years the agriculture classes have increased from 21 to 3 and now have an enrollment o! 740 tm the day classes, Enrollment in both day and night classes in agri culture is 855; in trade classes, 922; tin home economics 798, The last legislature cut in half the appropriation for Amerioantzation work, Nevertheless, during 1922-2924 59 classes were maintained with an enrollment of 912 Millions in Permanent Fond, Our permanent school fund now wquala approximately — $10,900,000, During 1924, $697,076.26 tn tncome from this fund was distributed to the school districts of the state. This amounted (© $1128 per child school aga. In Aughst and November of this year.a total of $2,000,000 de. rived from the government ol! royal- ty fund was distributed. On the per teacher basis, the amount received by school districts for each rural and elementary teacher employed was $653.48 and for each high school teacher $980.23 With this splendid state ald, {tt Would be unfortunate tndeed if the | school dkt not show progress, The persons whg should profit By these large gifta from the state are the children, If they reap no benefit NKING 133 132 126 TO 14,500 WSITORS IN YEAR The population of a good-sized elty rolled through Casper during |the 1924 tourist season and rolled on again, bound to or from the scenic eplendors which are being recognized more and more as one of Wyoming's greatest assets. Cars pausing for a night or more at the city camping ground last year num: bered 3,662, an increase of more} than 200 over the census for 1923 At a conservative estimate of four persons to each car, the total num: ber of tourt stopping there was roughly 14,500. This ts exclusive, of course, of those who registered | at hotels and henoe are not ac te] ei for on the ‘rolls of Mra. CG. C. Laresh, superintendent of the camp ground. | The estimate for 1928 total number of motor 10,900, giving 1924 an nearly 40 per cent. Every state but two was repre. sented among last year's visitors These two delinquents were Dela ware, -for the second year in suc | are in a healthy condition; that the| cession, and Arkansas, Callfornia people aro interested and sympa-|led all the rest, with 293 ¢ hetic; and that therefore the future | Wyoming, South Dakota holds promise of still further prog: | braska followed with 268, venient rially year enlarged pping The stze of the kite by halt and the people of the atate to fee to ft that adequate buildings and equipment, A practical and well-rounded curricu lum, and well qualified teachers are provitied for our boys and girls, than whom there are no finer In the JAnd I have packed Into ag short a space as possible some ftems of school news whioke I hope will be of interest, Many other things might be discussed which would show prog: reas in almost every phase of schoo! work. EB show Placed the tourists at increas: of Caltfornia ~ Wyoming ~ wh has been written to that the schools of Wyoming then te the state holding a short: | sighted and impractical policy, The atate Itself has an enormous in veatment in schools and a respon aiblity tn determining whether che money ta properly spent. The mo! should be wisely and economic: expended, for the source from wh it comes te not inexhaustible, In th last ten years the school enrollment has risen from 29,301 to 60,681, It ts hant to visus no large a number If the children attending our pu schools were marohing four fe apart the column ‘wouhl extend fo more than 58 miles, If we co such a sight we would be very impressed. 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