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Indiana University Studies 



Results from the District and Graded Schools of Five 



County Systems 



In this division I attempt but little more than to give the 

 descriptions of the systems concerned as they were reported. 



All of Wabash county with the exception of one township 

 has had the eight months' term for a number of years. The 

 township excepted has had it for but three years. There are 

 seven townships in the county each having from one to five 

 graded (consolidated or combined)^ schools of from two to four 

 teachers each, and each, with one exception, having a number of 

 district schools. The ratio of children in district schools (upper 

 four grades considered) to those in graded schools is 376 to 757. 

 The system of township supervision has been practiced thruout 

 the county for a number of years. In this system the principal 

 of one of the township high schools has all the township schools 

 under his direct supervision. The teaching of arithmetic is begun 

 in the first grade. 



In Huntington county the length of term varies from six and 

 one-half to seven months. Each township has one graded school 

 with two teachers. The ratio of district school children to graded 

 school children is 315 to 71. The township supervision system 

 was in use in one township only, and then for but two years, 

 preceding the giving of the tests. No special supervision is 

 given as to time of beginning of the teaching of arithmetic. 



Lake county had had the nine months' term for six years 

 preceding the giving of the tests. There are ten townships under 

 the supervision of the county superintendent, which are, with 

 one exception, for the most part consolidated. There are also 

 five villages under the county superintendent, but these have 

 separate school boards. 



The four Warren county towns are under the supervision of 

 the county superintendent. 



Only one Randolph county school was reported. This is a 

 consolidated school having both local and county supervision. 



The length of recitation periods for the same type of schools 

 varies very little. 



iCombined schools are those supplanting two or three district schools and generally 

 have no more than two teachers. Consolidated schools are those supplanting several 

 district schools. 



2ln the fall of 1915 a supervision system similar to that in use in Wabash county 

 was adopted. 



