Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: History of the Scheme in Nebraska. This scheme was first recommended by State Superintendent W. K. Fowler in his Seventeenth Biennial report, from which we take the following extracts: "I would recommend the organization of training classes in colleges, normal schools, and such academies and high schools as are able to meet the requirements for such a class. These training classes should be under the unrestricted supervision of the sta,te superintendent of public instruction. On or, before the first of July of each year, application for appointment to instruct training classes should be presented to the state superintendent by the trustees of the institution desiring such appointment on blank forms provided for the purpose. No high school should be recognized as meeting the requirements for a training class except those organized under subdivision 14 or 17 of the school laws of Nebraska. These applications should set forth the various facts or information regarding the school, giving the number of teachers employed, the enrollment in the different departments, opportunities afforded for observation and practice work, the names, qualifications and salaries of instructors, etc. Before being forwarded the application should be approved by the county superintendent of the county in which such school is located. The idea of permanancy is an important factor to be considered in the approval of such schools, for it s essential to retain, as far as possible, the same institutions year after year and make them educational centers for this work. Certain specific requirements should be prescribed in the regulations issued by the state superintendent as a requisite for approving these institutions, among which are the following: the institution must furnish as an instructor (or instruct...