Religious Education and American Democracy

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Pilgrim Press, 1917 - 394 pages
 

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Page 98 - A unit represents a year's study in any subject in a secondary school, constituting approximately a quarter of a full year's work.
Page 54 - These concessions are all right as far as they go. But they do not go far enough.
Page 98 - A unit course of study in a secondary school is defined as a course covering an academic year that shall include in the aggregate not less than the equivalent of one hundred twenty sixty-minute hours of classroom work, — two hours of shop or laboratory work being equivalent to one hour of prepared classroom work.
Page 76 - The minimum scholastic attainment of all high school teachers shall be equivalent to graduation from a college belonging to the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, including special training in the subjects they teach, although such requirements shall not be construed as retroactive.
Page 155 - Three for one year, three for two years, and three for three years, and members shall be eligible for reappointment.
Page 98 - Association a unit course of study in a secondary school is defined as " a course covering an academic year that shall include in the aggregate not less than the equivalent of one hundred and twenty sixty-minute hours of classroom work, two hours of manual training or laboratory work being equivalent to one hour of classroom work.
Page 41 - Let us make ourselves watchers and guardians of the order of the world.... "If only for love of our dead.... "Let us pledge ourselves to service. Let us set ourselves with all our minds and all our hearts to the perfecting and working out of the methods of democracy and the ending for ever of the kings and emperors and priestcrafts...
Page 80 - The minimum attainment of a teacher of any academic subject, and likewise of the supervisors of teachers of such subjects, shall be equivalent to graduation from a College belonging to the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools...
Page 129 - ... (d) Upon the degree to which professional standards and a comprehensive plan are made the basis of the preparation of teachers for work in religious education. (e) Upon the degree to which parents awake to the unparalleled opportunity for the religious education of our children and youth, the profound need for sympathetic cooperation among all citizens of whatever faith, and the call for sacrifice in time and thought, in effort and money, consecrated to the children of the Kingdom.

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