Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Course of Study and Manual of Methods for the Elementary Schools of Iowa
The course of study as outlined provides for five divisions. Read ing serves as the most convenient and logical basis of classification.
The first year pupils, or all pupils who read in the first reader, constitute the E division. All the pupils who read in the second reader should be classified in the. D division. Third and fourth year pupils are to be classed in th'e C division, provided they are correspondingly advanced in their other studies. The B division will include nearly all the pupils of the fifth and sixth years, or those who read in the fourth reader. But if for any reasons, pupils have not completed the work of the C division, they should not be promoted to the B division simply because they are in the fourth reader class. All pupils in the seventh and eighth years, who are in the fifth reader class and up in their other studies, make up the A division.
In many rural schools, the organization and classification are exceedingly faulty. The reasons for this are apparent. Teachers and school directors are changed too frequently. Families move from one part of the country to another, and their children lose time, bring no grades or records from their former teachers, and always want to use their old books. Some pupils are slow; others fast. Some are strong; others are not able to carry full work. Some pupils are regular in attendance; while others are very irregular. Many rural Schools are taught by inexperienced teachers - high school graduates from town, who never attended a rural school. For all these reasons it may be that, not much dependence can be placed upon the classification of the preceding teacher.
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