Excerpt from Report on a Survey of the Board of Education Prepared for the Chamber of Commerce of Reading by the New York Bureau of Municipal Research, April 1914, Vol. 10
General Administration.
The small school board of nine members tends towards prompt dispatch of business, minimized routine and increased activity by individual members.
The committee system makes it possible for each director to participate in at least two varieties of school work.
The organization of the board makes special provision for enforcing the compulsory attendance law and for the medical inspection of school children.
The difference in educational needs of boys and girls is recognized in the organization of separate high schools.
The provision of separate supervisors for lower and upper grades is an effective means of meeting the peculiar problems presented by the primary and advanced grades of the school course.
Special provision is made for the supervision of instruction in music, drawing, manual training, household arts, physical culture and for giving attention to the needs of pupils who are not normal.
Small libraries in all grade-rooms and well organized high school libraries make it possible for all pupils to extend the range of their reading interest beyond the text-book covers.
Educational Administration.
There is opportunity for improving the method of handling correspondence, office routine, particularly clerical matters, and requests for information which needlessly interrupt the work of office heads and clerks.
A more efficient clerical organization is needed to deal with detail matters and relieve higher officials.
Provision is made for keeping Reading"s school authorities currently informed as to the progress of events and the trend of discussion in educational matters throughout the country in that one of the supervisors is delegated to the task of scanning educational journals and marking articles which are submitted to the superintendent for distribution among the supervisory and teaching staff. The further services of a clipping bureau and the assignment of this work to a clerk would improve this important phase of school administration.
The teachers of Reading fail to appreciate by sufficient use the excellent library provided for them in the administration building.
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