Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 122, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1909 — State School Commissioner of Ohio, Likes Indiana’s School System. [ARTICLE]

State School Commissioner of Ohio, Likes Indiana’s School System.

In a letter received by Robert-J. Aley, state superintendent of public instruction, John W. Zeller, state commissioner of the public schools in Ohio, spoke highly of the rural and village schools of Indiana. “I came away from my week’s visit in your state,” he said, “with good impressions of the work being accomplished in your rural and village schools. I was much pleased with what I saw. I feel that you are making marked improvements in these schools. I w 7 ant to congratulate you upon the good school spirit I found prevalent everywhere.” Mr. Zeller was in Indiana gathering information about the manner of conducting schools preparatory to writing a bill to be presented at the next Ohio legislature. He visited a number of high schools in this state; also, gathering (pointers to guide him in effecting a reorganization of the high schools oif his own state.