Show uniformity nox NON IN TEXT BOOKS boons SALT LAKE CITY may lay 21 1884 editor if it would not be trespassing tres passing on your time and space too much I 1 should like to ask you a question which I 1 think is of much importance to the community at large especially ally aily here in utah where education is one of our most st important an t interests the follow ing g will v 1 11 probably ably give you a faint idea of what h t piri pito I 1 am af after ter you are aware that an exchange of textbooks text books was made last year which though not quite satisfactory to many was thought by some to be an advantage in many respects yet none of the advantages so far as I 1 am ain aware were presented to the public t through the press I 1 do not wish to go into detail on the merits or demerits of the case but merely present a few facts for your inspection and also to gain some information on the subject I 1 find on examining our readers that those of the same grade are not alike for instance one of our second readers will have a certain lesson printed in arabic letters while another apparently parent ly the same kind of bool book will have that lesson printed in script there being several lessons ot this style in them and in one the spelling lesson will have five lines of about seven words each while another will have only three words in each line our sp spellers ellerA are called the complete speller but they do not all agree in their contents as some will have a certain word in a lesson while others will omit that word entirely and have an entirely din dlf erent derent one in the place of it some of guc gur geographies give the population of a certain country as souls while others of the same kind give it as souls these are only a few of the differ i I 1 ances to be found in these books that should in my estimation have none at all hence my question gis Is it an advantage or not to tome lne ine it does not look r reasonable e that pupils in the class with books that are not alike could bogress so rapidly as they would do their books were the same I 1 believe the most of these changes have appeared in the books that have been purchased since the exchange by why should a publishing company make any changes atall at all ali in a series serles of books that are to je be issued in a community y for a period perio dof of years what advantages are to be gained b by it I 1 think it would be a decided advantage advantage al vantage to others like myself if they would insert an introductory article setting forth the advantage of having one part of a class reading script while the other part is reading the arabic letters for I 1 must confess that I 1 am as yet unable to understand it clea clearly ri very respectfully tf ully J D C the difficulty complained of by our i correspondent is in our opinion one that should be remedied changes in text books will of course occur particularly ticul arly ariy in geographies later information the alterations in bounda blunda bo boundary unda lines population etc necessarily occasion this but the books now supplied plied in conformity with the arrangements entered into under the law governing this matter ought to be uniform form the superintendents of schools in the various counties ought to look into the grievance complained of by our correspondent and take measures f for or its rectification uniformity was wa one of the chief objects in view in the passage of the law lav lay concerning text books the books purchased for our district schools ought not to be of different and contradictory editions |