Progress and Promotion of Pupils in Certain 

 Indiana City and Rural Schools 



How the Data were Secured. The portion of this study 

 which deals with the relation between the ag-e of pupils and 

 their progress in school is based upon data from twenty-eight 

 (28) city and town school systems and one county school sys- 

 tem/ The total number of children included is 29,932. 



For the purpose of reporting these data, the usual age- 

 grade blank form was used. It provided for listing the num- 

 bers of pupils separately by sex for each half-year age and 

 for each half-school grade. The data called for were based 

 upon the number of pupils ''belonging on December 18, 19, 

 20, 21, 1917" (depending upon the day the study was made). 

 The following directions were printed upon the blank: 



2. In securing the number belonging, the following should be construed 

 to terminate membership in school: 1. Death. 2. Withdrawal 

 on notice. 3. Suspension or expulsion. 4. Transfers to other 

 schools, or departments in the same system. 5. Six consecutive 

 half-days' absence. 



In order to obtain fair and impartial information about con- 

 ditions in the state, it is imperative that pupils in special classes 

 for retarded and defective pupils be included in the age-grade 

 report. Whenever pupils in such classes can be classified with 

 reasonable accuracy on the basis of entrance of one or other of 

 the several regular grades, they should be included in the gen- 

 eral report. Whenever they cannot, they should be reported on 

 a separate form arranged by the school. 



^ The Bureau of Cooperative Research is glad to acknowledge its indebtedness to the 

 following superintendents for furnishing the data upon which this study is based: 



School systems having semiannual promotions — Supt. Harry Nixon, Doankirk ; Supt. 

 E. N. Canine, East Chicago ; Supt. N. F. Hutchison, Huntingburg ; Supt. F. H. Kinney, 

 Ligonier ; Supt. C. H. Douglass, Logansport ; Supt. L. E. Kelley, Montpelier ; Supt. 

 Homer Long, Madison ; Supt. J. F. Nuner, South Bend ; Supt. O. J. Neighbours, Wabash. 



School systems having annual promotions — Supt. Chas. A. Boss, Avilla ; Supt. L. B. 

 Job, Boswell ; Supt. A. W. Hines, Cambridge City ; Supt. H. E. Stahl, Cayuga ; Prin. 

 E. L. Lindsall, Ellettsville ; Supt. H. C. Clausen, Grovertown ; Supt. J. M. Haigerty, 

 Loogootee ; Supt. J. H. Thomas, Medora ; Prin. Mortimer Lewis, Montmorenci ; Supt. 

 I. S. Hahn, Middletown ; County Supt. A. B. Oswalt, North Manchester ; Supt. J. A. 

 Yager, Owenville ; Prin. C. W. Odell, Oxford ; County Supt. Harry Evans, Pine Village ; 

 County Superintendent Floyd M. Annis, Plymouth, for Marshall County ; County Supt. 

 Lee L. Driver, Ridgeville ; Supt. O. H. Greist, Union City ; Supt. J. M. Leffel, Warsaw ; 

 Supt. F. G. Neel, Winamac ; Supt. E. B. Rizer, Worthington. 



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