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Per Cent of the School Time Given to History in Each Grade. 



Just what per cent of the school time history should have is a 

 question for the future to settle. The next table will show present 

 practice as revealed by this investigation. The variation is from 

 one to thirty- three per cent, ten per cent being the favorite 

 proportion (in 140 cases). A glance at the totals show that there 

 is at present no common agreement as to the per cent of time to 

 give to history. The miediaii per cents show an expected increase 

 from the first to the eighth grade. These median per cents; in order 

 of grades beginning with the first are 6.61, 9, 9.33, 10.67, and 10.94. 

 Superintendent Wilson^ found in computing the per cents for 

 seventy-eight courses of study in arithmetic that the per cents 

 for each grade beginning with the first ran as follows: 6, 11 J, 14 J, 



Time Given to History, 



Frequency in Grades- 



4 j 5 



Total. 



Number of cities reporting . 



1 to 2 per cent 



2 to 3 per cent 



3 to 4 per cent 



4 to 5 per cent 



5 to 6 per cent 



6 to 7 per cent 



7 to 8 per cent 



8 to 9 per cent. 



9 to 10 per cent 



10 to 11 per cent 



11 to 12 per cent 



12 to 13 per cent 



13 to 14 per cent 



14 to 15 per cent 



15 to 16 per cent. . . ; 



16 to 17 per cent 



17 to 18 per cent 



18 to 19 per cent 



19 to 20 per cent 



20 to 21 per cent. 



21 to 22 per cent 



25 per cent , 



29 per cent 



30 per cent 



33 per cent 



Median . 



64 

 9 

 9 



10 

 3 

 8 

 5 

 2 

 3 



62 



3 

 7 



10 

 16 

 8 

 14 

 2 

 8 

 1 



11 



88 

 1 

 9 

 7 



11 

 8 



18 

 4 



12 

 2 

 9 



121 



128 



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135 



4 



3 

 10 



8 

 16 



7 

 13 



4 

 22 



6.6 



I 



2 



8 

 5 

 2 



9 



10 

 16 

 16 

 3 

 22 

 1 

 6 

 5 

 2 

 8 

 4 

 1 



7 

 5 

 9 



17 

 7 



30 

 2 

 7 

 7 

 5 



13 

 5 

 1 



2 

 10 



14 



9.3 



10.7 



1 



4 

 8 



10 

 9 



37 

 3 



10 

 2 

 4 

 9 

 8 

 1 



25 

 3 

 1 



10.9 



21 



42 

 39 

 60 

 54 

 76 

 54 

 83 

 26 

 140 

 6 

 32 

 17 

 13 

 46 

 29 



2 

 64 



15i, 16, 17, 16, and 17. It will be observed that these are higher 

 in every grade, the greatest difference being in grades III and IV. 

 The difference in per cents by grades beginning with the first is 1, 



'Course of Study in Mathematics— Connersville, Ind., Public Schools p. 

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