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the school year, from the recorder's office at the State University. Further inquiries will receive prompt attention, as will also any correspondence relating to possible changes in or adjustment of courses of study looking toward the accrediting of any given school if the correspondence is directed to the chairman of the committee on secondary schools, Prof. J. H. T. Main, Iowa College, Grinnell, the secretary of said committee, Prof. Thomas Nicholson, Cornell College, Mount Vernon, Iowa, or to the Professor of Pedagogy of the State University, Iowa City.

CHAPTER X.

ACCREDITED HIGH SCHOOLS.

COURSES OF STUDY TABULATED. FULLY ACCREDITED LIST.

PARTIALLY ACCREDITED LIST.

ACCREDITED HIGH SCHOOLS.

TABULATION OF COURSES OF STUDY OF THE HIGH SCHOOLS ACCREDITED TO THE COLLEGES OF THE COLLEGE

DEPARTMENT OF THE I. S. T. A., 1900.

The Committee herewith presents its report for the year 1900. The schools named in Group I below are accredited as making preparation for entrance to college in one or more courses. The Committee calls the special attention of registrars and college faculties to the following points:

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READ CAREFULLY.

Notice that all the schools in Group 1 do not have courses admitting to all the college courses. Some schools have work sufficient to admit them only to the Scientific or Letters course and by reason of having less than the required language their students are admitted to the Classical and Philosophical courses with language conditions.

2. Note that it is not an infrequent thing for schools to graduate students who have completed less than the course laid down on paper and submitted to the Committee.

3. In view of these facts let registrars note the following clause from the report of this Committee which has twice been unanimously adopted by the College Department of the State Teachers' Association: "A mere certificate of graduation is not to be received by any college as proof that the student has completed all the studies of the course. If this be presented there must also be shown, in addition, a detailed statement signed by the principal or other trustworthy officer, of the work actually done, including the texts studied, the time spent upon each subject, the grades received, and other proper information." Will registrars be particular to observe this rule. This is the purpose of furnishing full tabulation. Compare certificates presented to you with the work here detailed as that upon which the school was accredited. Please report promptly to the Committee any schools whose students are found to come with certificates of graduation and yet with detailed statements of work which show that the full course is not taught or required. Do not admit any pupil to the Freshman class simply because the name of the school from which he comes appears on the accredited list. The laborious work of making the tabulation herewith presented and the expense of printing it is all undertaken that you may have exact data on which to check up these things and thus protect yourself.

4. Note that the tabulation in the first set of studies shows the amount of time actually spent in the high school on each subject. That in the second or last set of columns shows the amount of credit actually given for this work. The difference arises from such causes as spending more time than is necessary on a subject:—for instance, two full years on Algebra when the work covered is only that which should be done in one and one-half years; having work in some of the subjects which properly belongs to the grammar grades, having superfluous work not considered by the persons who visited the school and by the detailed statements of work furnished to the Committee by the principal or school board as of strictly high school grade or character.

5. Please keep a record of the schools whose students frequently fail in the advanced work to which they are admitted. Have the kindness to report promptly to the Committee schools from whom you receive any considerable number of students manifestly weak in scholarship. Should you find that the school at "A" continually sends you students deficient in Latin or in Mathematics or particularly in English, you should confidentially put the Committee in possession of the facts and the particular points of weakness discovered, that the school may be informed of its deficiency and required to strengthen the weak places. It is the purpose to drop such schools from the list, if they do not improve after a sufficient time has been given for said improvement.

6. It has been suggested that since many schools fill their courses by allowing students to do the last year of Latin, outside of school, reciting once a week to the principal; in some cases studying up the work in absentia and passing it by examination; and other such devices; as far as possible class officers should ascertain when the student presents himself, how much of his work has been done in actual bona fide class work, and where all the work has not been thus performed, a special minute should be made and the record of said student scrutinized with special care. Failures following such work should promptly relegate the student for review in these branches and such failures should be reported to the Committee, that the schools may be informed of the necessity of furnishing proper teaching force in such departments or withdrawing from our accredited list.

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Any other points discovered by class officers which would be of value to the Committee should be reported. All suggestions will be thankfully received. It is the purpose of the Committee to be absolutely fair to all parties concerned, but at the same time to protect the colleges on the one hand and aid the high schools to come up to the proper standard on the other.

8. In column, "No. of recitations daily," the range is from 3% to 4%. The fractions could not be inserted in the column.

The work is respectfully submitted by the Committee:

Charles O. Denny, Chairman,

Thomas Nicholson, Secretary,

J. J. McConnell,

W. A. Heidel, for J. H. T. Main,

R. C. Hughes,

Charles Eldred Shelton.

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