Edric £1644(4), Official Organ of the Southern Commission on Accredited Schools, of the EDITORIALS: Reorganization of the N. E. A.; Recommendation of the National Conference Committee on Standards of Colleges and Sec- ondary Schools; The Metric System for America; The Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of the Carnegie Foundation; High School Development in the South. DEVELOPMENT OF HIGH SCHOOLS IN ALABAMA-Jas. S. Thomas___ SECONDARY EDUCATION IN ARKANSAS-A. B. Hill_ HIGH SCHOOL DEVELOPMENT IN MISSISSIPPI-J. C. Fant_. HIGH SCHOOL DEVELOPMENT IN SOUTH CAROLINA-J. A. Stoddard. ENGLISH IN THE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL-Thos. H. Briggs__. THE OPPORTUNITY OF THE SMALL COLLEGES-Harry Clark------ INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS-Arthur J. Dann---- PLAN FOR ORGANIZING COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL WORK-J. S. Stewart-- 39 The High School Quarterly Entered as second-class matter October 28, 1912, at the post office at Athens, Ga.. under the Act of March. 1879. Vol. IX. OCTOBER, 1920 JOSEPH SPENCER STEWART, A.M., Ped.D., Editor. No. 1 J. S. THOMAS, U. of Ala.; A. B. HILL, Dept. of Ed., Ark.; W. C. CAWTHON, L. L. FRIEND, Dept. of Ed., W. Va.; High School Visitors, Contributing EDUCATION IN A DEMOCRACY, BOTH WITHIN AND WITHOUT THE SCHOOL, SHOULD DEVELOP IN EACH INDIVIDUAL THE KNOWLEDGE, INTERESTS, IDEALS, HABITS AND POWERS WHEREBY HE WILL FIND HIS PLACE AND USE THAT PLACE TO SHAPE BOTH HIMSELF AND SOCIETY TOWARD NOBLER ENDS.-N. F. A. Reviewing Committee on Secondary Education. Editorials Reorganization of the N. E. A. Under the new constitution adopted in July, membership in the N. E. A. consists of active, associate and corresponding members. The election of officers and transaction of all business will be by a representative assembly composed of delegates. The plan contemplates the affiliation of all state educational associations and local associations or teachers' organizations with the N. E. A. The annual dues of each affiliated state association will be $10.00 for each delegate, and for each affiliated local association $5.00 for each delegate. Each affiliated association may elect one delegate and one alternate for each 100 members who are active members of the N. E. A. Del egate will be either state delegates or local delegates. The officers of the N. E. A. and the state superintendent of schools of each state are ex-officio delegates to the assembly. The annual dues of active members will be $2.00. The new plan is due chiefly to William D. Owens of the Chicago Normal College. We would like to see him the next president of the reorganized association. The general assembly of the N. E. A. now becomes a representative body composed of delegates from each of the 48 states and of regularly organized local educational bodies. Its pronouncements will more fully represent the views of the whole country and will have greater influence because of its representative character. Often in the past, action has been taken due to the large number of teachers from a given section of the country in which the annual meeting was held. Under the new plan all sections will have representation according to the number of active members in the state and local affiliating associations. The state associations in the South should begin a campaign for active members in the N. E. A. so as to have a good membership in the assembly. The new plan recognizes the states as integral parts of the national association. In fact, an active member can vote only as he is the delegate of a state or local association. Recommendations of the National Conference Committee on Standards of Colleges and Secondary Schools. In accordance with the instructions of the President, Dean George D. Olds, the Secretary, called a meeting of The National Conference Committee on Standards of Colleges and Secondary Schools for 10:30 A. M., Tuesday, March 23, 1920, at the rooms of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, in New York City. The Secretary presented a report based upon an investigation of fifty of the leading colleges and universities of the United States, showing the great advance that is being made by the department of physical education, and the place that it is winning in the colleges, side by side with other departments. The following facts indicate the growth of the movement. Of the fifty colleges studied, only two make no require |