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nature and amount of equipment, and the quality of the teaching 

 done. It -was also understood that the visitors should advise with 

 science teachers, principals, and superintendents as to their particular 

 science teaching problems. Finally by means of talks to students and 

 public lectures the visitors were to try to sell the idea of science to 

 the school and to the community. Most of the information is in the 

 hands of Mr. Highsmith, High School Supervisor, and is being studied 

 by several sub-committees ; among them being one on high school 

 science curriculum and one on high school science apparatus and 

 equipment. The large committee has been called to meet today in 

 order to map out further work along this line. 



5. Arrangement has been made for the State Department of Edu- 

 cation to present the matter of school science to this Academy. 



With the foregoing in mind your committee offers the following 

 recommendations : 



1. That we favor the formation of a science unit in the N. C. 

 Education Association. 



2. That we ask the publisher of the High School Journal for a 

 page each month, devoted to science, and that we ask for a chance 

 occasionally to present articles of a scientific interest in the pages of 

 North Carolina Education. 



3. That we make an effort through the office of the secretary, or 

 through the committee on publicity to get a series of press bulletins 

 out into the weekly newspapers of the state. 



4. That we ask the State Department of Education to continue 

 the work of its present committee and if possible to extend its scope 

 and effectiveness. 



5. That we establish through the office of the secretary, or through 

 your committee on high school science a Bureau of Information for 

 the benefit of the superintendents, principals, and of science teachers, 

 covering such points as the equipment and courses in the various high 

 schools, the qualifications, experience and effectiveness of science 

 teachers, and the correct placing of these teachers. 



6. That this committee be instructed to consider and report at the 

 next annual meeting of the Academy on the advisability of forming 

 a section of high school science in the Academy. 



7. That we call the attention of the science departments of the 

 various colleges of the state to the need of courses in the teaching of 

 science, including both the idea of content as well as that of methods ; 



