Show PROGRAM FOR THE WAR suggestions for a program ram of school activity for different pa types of educational institutions during the war have nave just been issued by dr P P claxton united states commissioner of education after P binting gout out atiat attendance laws lawi should be enforced as usual I 1 dr di claxton S says Y parents should 1 bi encouraged 7 ed to make all possible efforts to keep their children in school and should have public or private va te help when they cannot do so without it many young young children will lack the home care given them in times of peace and there wi will 11 ll be need 0 of f in many any imore more kindergarten kindergartens s and mon schools than we now have the attendance in the high schools should be increased a and n d P more ore boys and girls should be induced to remain until their course is is completed A school year of four terms of 12 weeks each is recommended for the high schools schoola as for thee the leme tary schools in the high sch schools adopting this plan arrangements range ments should be made for half time atten attendance dande according to the fitchburg cincinnati and spartanburg S C plans for a large proportion of kupig pupils as possible all laboratories and manual training shops in high schools should be run at their full capacity in many of the shops work should be done which will have immediate value for the national defense in all high schools in which dome domestic sewing cooking sanitation etc is taught large units of time should be given in the summer and fall to th sewing for the red cross and for 0 lor local charities classes for grownup women should be formed in which practical instruction can be given largely by lecture and demon strat ionin the conservation and econ economic oinie I 1 use of food cpr F r all boys and girls wh who 0 can cannot not attend the day sessions of the high schools continuation classes should be formed to tj meet at such times as may be arranged during working hours or in the evening all cities should maintain evening schools for adult men and women in elti cities es having considerable numbers of immigrants evening sh schools als should be maintained I 1 for for 0 them with classes in english in civics and such other subjects as will be helpful to these foreigners in understanding our industrial social civic and pa political life in few states is the supply of broadly educated and well trained teachers equal t to 0 the demand the normal schools should double their ene energies 1791 i es and use all their funds in the most economic way for the work of preparing teachers ampro privations for the support of normal schools should be largely increased as should also theat theat of men and women preparing for service as teachers teacher S the number of students in colleges universities land and technical schools should increase rather than diminish mandof many of the older and upper class men will volunteer for some branch of the military sei service vice but all young men below the age of liability to selective draft and those not recommended for special service should be urged to remain and take full advantage of the opportunities offered by the COL colleges leges universities arid and technical schools to the end that they may be able to render the most effective service in the latter years of the war and the ti times in es of need that will follow practically all women students should remain and all boys and girls graduating from high schools should be urged to enter college technical school or normal school all students should be made mad to understand that it is their du ty to give to their country arid and to the world the best and fullest possible me measure a sure asure of service and that both will need more than they will get of that high of service which only men and women of the best education and training cart can give patriotism and the desire to serve humanity may require of these young men am and i women the exercise of that verv high tatu of self re that will keep them thein to their tasks of preparation un til the time comes wh when e n the they can render service which I 1 can not be rendered by others in agricultural colleges special intensive courses should be given to prepare teachers directors and supervisors ot of agriculture and practical farm superintendents it should be kemem bated beted that the scientific knowledge and the supervising and directing skill of these men and their ability to increase the productive capacity of thousands of men of less ices knowledge and skill a are re far more valuable than the work they can do as is farm hands tho the total number of agricultural students in all colleges is only a fraction more than one tenth of 1 per cent of the total number of persons engaged in agriculture or about 13 in not donoug enough h to affect materially tho the agricultural production of th the e country by their labor but enough to affect it immensely by their directive power when their college curses courses have been ani finished shed no college university or technical school that can avoid it should permit its faculty or student body to be scattered or its energies to be dissipated all should redouble their ener ties mes and concentrate concen rate them on those things that will be of most service luring during the fhe progress of the war and which will prepare their students for the most ef service of the country and of the world when the war is is over |