Educational Progress in the South, 1907 PDF Download

Author: Southern Education Board
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781330450710
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 44

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Excerpt from Educational Progress in the South, 1907: A Review of Five Years, Field Reports of the Southern Education Board The annual conferences started at Capon Springs, in 1898, have grown into significant assemblies to which people interested in education come from all of the Southern States; they have also taken on organization with which to do definite things and to work systematically toward the ends proposed. Something not unlike this is seen in the several States. This whole movement proceeds by citizens' meetings culminating in organization. In Virginia, soon after the formation of this Board, an educational campaign was undertaken under the leadership of Professor Tucker and Dr. Frazer, in which the people of a county were invited to meet at their courthouse to hear a discussion about the needs of their children. The first results were an aroused popular sentiment and a general recognition of the importance of having better schools. The next step was to crystalize this sentiment into an instrument for improving the schools. The outcome was the local "league" to attend to the interests of the community and the "Co-operative Education Association" to advance such interests as were common to all parts of the State. There are now 324 of these leagues. Within a few months the negroes, under the lead of the president of the State Industrial School at Petersburg, have adopted the same method, and ten local associations have been organized, extending into five different counties. Through such organizations popular meetings are continually held for the accomplishment of particular objects connected with school improvement, and a general meeting is held at some convenient center once each year. Of the local meetings, 580 are reported in a single year. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.