Evening Star Newspaper, November 14, 1926, Page 11

| o | charities. | tinue through November 23. | teams have been | begin their canvass T Fifth Annual Catholic Event Will Be Attended by Arch- “know f a drive to raise $40,000 for the why ar increased budget Opening of Drive. The campaign will con- Sixteen formed and will INTELLIGENGE TEST These classes, known as opportunity classes, are for the acceleration of brilliant children and enrichment of their curriculum and for adjustment to the dullard groups. “The educational research depart- ment,” she continues, ‘“has recom- mended that thousands of children be ‘uesday morn- am capiai McGarvey, Miss Gertrude Keane, Mis Ethel Ammon Miss Ann. ardiner SPEEDS SCHOOLING M “|Research Here Discloses 212 So Far Have Genius Rat- allowed acceleration by skipping over certain grades when they are shown by tests to be already functioning on educational levels from one to four semesters beyond their grade place- ment. “Had all these children been re- quired to lock-step along at the usual rate, it would have required many teachers to teach them what they C, NOVEMBER I with chronological ages varying from 4 to 6 or more years, with as wide a range in mental maturity and degrees of brightness ranging from feeble- mindedness to genius. Fit Individual Needs. “I conceive,” Miss La Salle says in conclusion, “the biggest contribution that educational research can make, to be along the line of adjusting edu- catlon to individual needs and to elim- inate the attempts to lock-step chil-| dren through the same course of study at the same rate, regardless of capa- city, needs or interests, “Not only has the department of FULLER TO BE GUARDED. Parls Police Get Notice of Bay Fuller of Massachusetts has been 192! of murder in Massachusett:, and Communists in various countries have held demonstrations in their behalf. dlge o At the Prague Fall Sample Fair 73 different products from America wers shown. called to the attention of the Amer- ican embassy there by the State De- partment, and it is expected the Paris Police Department will take care to; guard the governor from any mani- festations which might_occur as an aftermath to the Sacco-Vanzetti case. Sacco and Vanzetti were convicted State Governor's Proposed Visit. The proposed Visit to Parls of Gov. bishop Curley. ing—Task Continues. ’ - know, or could learn without | °ducational research been concerned u-‘;‘{,'z‘;.'}.’: ‘hing. This is but one of the |With the discovery of differences in i in education that educational | €apacity to learn, but as well in the in Washington has elim. | differences in amounts learned. In the past the changes in knowledge of skills rating by the end of the school year that took place in pupils was a matter next June. is made by Miss Jessie La Attitude Is Changed. largely of opinion or guess work. In super of i the last few years, however, certain Hote e of educational re.| Fleasure is voiced by Miss La Salle objectivé tests scientifically construct- foe annual report to the |and by Howard H. Long, assistant|ed for the measurement of arithmetic i Wis < education, which was made | Superintendent in charge of educi-|knowledge, arithmetic facility, that is, bril > charit - b T i Johr lic last nizht I research in the colored divi- speed and accuracy, history, geog. il Miss La Salle , whose report also was made raphy, reading comprehension. reading Downham, | teiioencs the Misses Miss Prediction that every public school L hundred reservations have child will have had an intellizence the fifth annual din > Catholic Charities of Wash to be held at the Mayflower | Indication The following guests have reserved | tables at the dinner and will act es: Michael Heister, Hugh I Henry J. Allen Pope, Semmes, been for inated. ner of 1 ington RADIO Authorized Dealer See the Atwater Kent Models in Our Store or Let Us Demonstrate in Your Home Easy Terms—Excellent Service Auth, Johr . in her states that at the end were 21,158 in- in the elenen- there with the result that|that no longer need it be a mat ter of so insistent is the demand for them | guess work, but the amount of change that the department has been compell-| can be definitely stated. ed to drop much of its research work WILL TALK ON “DIATOMS” ziving of tests. in opportunity Dr. Albert Mann to Lecture at Car- negie Institute. Dr. Albert Mann, research associ- ate in biology of the Carnegie Insti- Imily o 158 tested pupils, the re- thie the dicated 3 of them, o ; we of avel lacing 34 of the pupils ‘are brilliant | & s and by removal of of them geniuses. She de- rmal puplls to atypical char 3 telle Kgar. | claces ihat 8,714 'of (helpupill wesal & liss La Salle states with I be toas . Julia Linksky s. Rieman | shown to be dullards, 975 atypical and | pride, “so much improvement has sley, Mrs. Harry Bicksler, Mrs. |7 non educible. e been made through the adjustment | Andrew’ MelIntyre, Mrs. Arthur Mo | that failures have been very mark- of the din-|Reynolds, Mrs. Nellie I. Fealy and| edly decreased. One school with an bles to be occu. | Mrs. Ann Sweef i enrollment around 700 reports that, s | e e through cinssification, fallures were | tution, wil lecture Tuesday night at reducec 1 69 to 28, an approxi-i8:30 o'clock in the assembly room of |AUSTRIA CONGRATULATED. of from 10 per cent to| the institution on “Diatoms —What | ssemidesliny This means a saving in| They Are and What They Do.” His 4 b Py Another school | lecture will be the second of a serles _The felictations of Pr of approximately ' sponsored by the institution. | Coolidge on the eighth anr res reduced from 93| Dr. Fred E. Wright, petrologist, | ot Ath onRILE ot in reteaching of i7 | zeophysical laboratory of the institu: Biic st aam are but typical. tion, will speak Tuesday night, No- public were cabled F wing in dollars nts and | vember 23, on “Gravity On the Barth dent Hainisch at Vienn i *‘On this anni mation of the A ret C. | John O'Grady, di Catherine | 3 nne Hagan, Range of Intelligence. “With the range of sampling o ex- the report “we have every confidence | in the beliof that the e of vavia- |+ bility and per cent falling in_each sup will not be appre different and that we can th afely as- sume that the W public | schools can 1 » of intel 0,610 enius, Complete Line of Accessories Atlantic Hardware Co. 2014 14th St. North 8020 to Presi Qullard, 6,3 i nd teacher time and energy is [and On the Moon.” His lecture will o anh compared to the gains due to | be illustrated and will consider the | d attitude of pupils and teach- | possible origin of the craters on the | n homogeneous grouping into [ moon. | sse accelerated, average and oppor- | These lectures are free to the pub- | tunity classes tz place. This is |lic, but admission is by ticket, which | not to be wondered at, as a perusal of | may be procured at the office of the | charts of any unclassified school will | Carnegie Institution. frequently show teachers having to | try to teach puplis in the same grade [ of the procla. | n Republic, I ations and best to vour excellency and the pecple on my own behalf of the Government and | people of the United State the mes- sagé from President Coolidge said. non- TiremERAANSEY L. 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