Industrial Education in Wilmington, Delaware: Report of a Survey Made Under the Direction of the Commissioner of EducationU.S. Government Printing Office, 1918 - 102 sivua |
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Sivu 10 - Nothing in this act shall prevent children of any age from receiving industrial education furnished by the United States, this state or any city or town in the state and duly approved by the state board of education or by [the school board or committee or] other duly constituted public authority.
Sivu 30 - A STUDY OF THE INDUSTRIES. IMPORTANCE AND SCOPE. The 1915 trade directory of the city of Wilmington is authority for the statement that there are $100,000,000 invested in manufactures in the city, and that the annual pay roll is $18,000,000. These estimates were probably somewhat large at the time this directory was issued, but there has been a tremendous growth in manufactures since that time. The Census Bureau's preliminary statement of the general results of the census of manufactures for the...
Sivu 10 - It is also provided that instruction for a like period in a private school or by a legally qualifield governess or private teacher in a family or by any other means approved by the county superintendent of schools shall exempt from attendance at a public school. • Provision is also made for the employment of attendance officers, and for other means for enforcing the law, the details of which need not be discussed here. LEGISLATION CONCERNING EMPLOYMENT OF MINORS. In 1913 the State legislature passed...
Sivu 87 - Printing is a very important industrial-arts course, and need not involve great additional expense to the school, because much printing for school use can be done in the school shop. Suitable equipment for printing costs about as much as equipment for woodworking. A separate room will be required, or one end of one in the present shops. A course in bookbinding and paper and cardboard work should take up problems which are thoroughly practical. The equipment for this work need not be expensive. No...
Sivu 63 - MJTUIIT different kinds ol work. one who is over age in his school work that makes application for these permits. 3. The schools are not holding the boys and girls as they should. As soon as the law permits them to go to work they leave school, not because of urgent necessity in the majority of cases, but because they were behind in their studies and discouraged and preferred to go to work rather than to continue in work that promised no direct help in fitting them for earning a living. 4. The tables...
Sivu 39 - Table 24, which is compiled from the 1910 census, gives the numbers of both males and females engaged in the manufacturing and mechanical industries in the State of Delaware (similar data for the city alone are not available) arranged by age groups. TABLE 24. — Age distribution of persons 10 years of age and over engaged in manufacturing and mechanical industries: Delaware, 1910. Of the total number of persons engaged in these industries, 1.1 per cent of the males and 6.5 per cent of the females...
Sivu 20 - Reasons given for choice of occupation bj/ pupils IS and 14 years of age, Wilmington. Of the 2,122 pupils 13 or 14 years of age, only 160, or 7.5 per cent, report working for wages outside of school hours (Table 9). It is worthy of note also that of the boys nearly seven-eighths, 84.9 per cent, have found their opportunities in trade (commercial) pursuits, while the opportunities in manufacturing and mechanical pursuits are practically negligible. TABLE 9. — Occupations outside of school hours...
Sivu 46 - Number of hoys of normal advancement (black-face figures), 63, or 21.9 per cent; girls, 20, or 17 per centOf the 287 boys reporting, 218, or 75.9 per cent, were over age for the grades which they had completed at the time of leaving school, assuming that a normal boy should have completed the seventh grade at 14 years of age and the eighth grade at 15 years. On the same basis, 96 of the 117 girls reporting, or 82 per cent, were over age. These facts harmonize with the conclusions reached by other...
Sivu 44 - Total. 150 Table 27 shows that, while probably the school records of permit boys seem to justify the belief in their ability to do work outside of school hours, there is room for improvement in the character of their school work. Tke authorities should refuse to issue permits in all cases in which the school reports are not furnished. TABLE 27. — School record* of boys holding street-trades permits — Wilmington.
Sivu 18 - Carpenters, coopers 1, 324 Clerks (except in stores) 1,195 Road and street transportation : 683 Salesmen 631 Painters, glaziers 620 Plumbers , '. 509 Among the fathers of the boys and girls the largest groups reported are: Laborers 149 Retail dealers 102 Machinists, millwrights...