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Show SCHOOL SURVEY RESULTS SHOWN Chambers of Commerce in 359 Cities Answer Teacher Questions NEW STORK, et 16. Chambers of commerce in (59 cities of the United States wilh a population of 8000 or more will receive from their national Committee for co-operation with the public Schools the results or a nation-,wlde nation-,wlde survey relating to salaries, training train-ing anil experience of teachers In which It Is declared that in point of salary, the average school tear lu r i 'worse off than before the war." The report, the first Of lour interpretive inquiries' will enable these cities, it is suld. to leain for the first time the truth about their own schools and to compare them with the schools of oth- 11 Miles throughout the- country. This survey, which was undertaken by the American City Uureuu after a onference of superintendents of schools with chamber of commerce secretaries at Cleveland. Ohio. last 1 ebruary 24 has been in progress mote than six months, 1 ne-half of the men elemer.tar v teachers in all cities reporting, II was shown have had less than the median of 9 10 years of experience One-fourth One-fourth have had less than. 3 71 years' experience. Of 68.291 teachers. 3.493 have had only one year's experience and of this number 7S arc men and women high school teachers and :'73r. are men and women elementary grade teachers. More than 10.000 women and 300 men in the cities served, however, how-ever, have been teaching 20 years and over Emergency teachers lacking proper training for their work are said to compose ;n alarmingly large proportion" propor-tion" of those now in the classrooms It Is commonly accepted standard among city boards of education, then-port point- out. that the teachers In the, elementary schools should be at 'least graduates of standard normal schools, which means a two-year professional pro-fessional course above graduation from a four-high school it is ver, significant signif-icant to note in this connection," ih report says, "that more thun onc-I onc-I third of the teachers of American cities .have less training than this low stau-.ilard stau-.ilard and that there me thousands of ; teachers In the elementary schools .of our American cities who have even less preparation than graduation from a foUr-year high school course." |