Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1914 — MAKE BETTER TEACHERS [ARTICLE]

MAKE BETTER TEACHERS

New York Schools’ Head Favors Married Women Over Spinsters for the Work. New York —Married women schoolteachers are better able to Instruct and are better disciplined than single women, according to a report made on the subject by Dr. William A. Maxwell, City superintendent of schools, tp the board of education at its last, meeting of the year. The report is the result of a study in 114 cases of women, who served as teachers four years before they were married and: four years afterward. Doctor Maxwell said that although in the same nlimber of cases it was found that before marriage the teachers were absent from school on an average of 23 days during the terin and after marriage the average was 38 days, efficiency of the married teacher was not lessened. There were no statistics in the report to show whether or not these teachers were more efficient than the majority wher have remained unmarried while teaching, and Doctor Maxwell was directed to gather data about the spinsters, so that the board may make more accurate deductions.