Show NEARLY NEARl Y fAit FAIL IN EXAMINATIONS Utah School Teachers Have I Hard Luck in Their Usual Usual I al Yearly Test I ITO I II TO HAVE ANOTHER CHANCE CHANCEl I FALL DOWN MAINLY IN N SPELL SPELLING SPELLING ING PEDAGOGY AND READING I i I Nearly of the teachers who took the annual examination the first week In June failed to pass it State Su So Superintendent SuperIntendent A C Nelson completed his tabulation of the results of the examina examination examination examination tion yesterday The tabulation shows that of teachers who took the examination examination examination nation only 2 O passed The law requires that the applicants shall have a general average of 70 and that they shall not fall faU below 50 in any given giyen subject The result by counties was as follows No No of Passed Applicants Beaver 4 18 Box Elder Eider 19 50 Cache 25 89 Carbon 4 7 Davis i 1 8 Emery S 8 18 GarfIeld 2 15 Iron 5 9 Juab 9 1 Kane 4 5 Millard 7 5 6 Morgan 2 5 Piute 1 3 2 Salt Lake 66 Sanpete 23 21 i 75 o Sevier 9 29 9 Summit 6 19 Tooele 1 6 Uintah n 7 1 12 I Utah 29 77 Wasatch 3 IS 18 Washington 7 j 18 Wayne 0 7 Weber 16 48 Totals No examination was held in Grand Rich or San Juan counties because there were no applicants there Teachers who failed to pass in the June examination will have an opportunity late in August to be re reexamined reexamined reexamined examined in the subjects in which they failed As has been stated In The Herald be before before before fore the subjects which proved the hard hardest hardest hardest est and most productive of failures were spelling reading and pedagogy Super Superintendent SuperIntendent Superintendent Nelson says the tests were more difficult than ever before due to a de desire desIre desire sire of the state board of education to raise the standard of teaching |