Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 178, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1911 — Educational Board Prepares New Rules Governing Normal Course. [ARTICLE]

Educational Board Prepares New Rules Governing Normal Course.

Changes in the rules regulating the accredited normal schools of Indiana are being prepared for publication by Charles A. Greathouse, state superintendent of public Instruction. The changes were made by a special committee of the State Board of Education at recent meetins. Among the more drastic changes are the following: Preparatory high school work shall be completed before admission to the normal course, except where a pupil has two credits to complete in a commissioned high school which he may complete in an accredited normal school. No teacher shall be permitted to teach more than twenty-five hours in one week (the former number having been thirty). The school library shall not be .used for a recitation room. The principles of education, school management, the principles of teaching apd special pedagogics, as applied to teaching, shell constitute at least twothirds of the course of study for students desiring to qualify as class A teachers. Three hours a week shall be given to the study of special pedagogy. Except in music and penmanship, no class shall exceed forty students, and a maximum of thirty is recommended. Changes were made in the rules relating to the employment of teachers in the accredited normal schpols and in the number of hours of study in various required subjects. Senator Kern has introduced in the senate a memorial of the Society of Friends, praying for the negotiation of unlimited arbitration treaties, to the end that all international differences may be settled in the future by peaceful methods.