16 Official Organ of the Southern Commission on Accredited Schools, of the Georgia High School and National High School Inspectors Associations. EDITORIALS: The Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools of the Southern States; Don't Drift; College Attendance in Geor- gia; South Carolina Educational Conference; School Clubs; University of Georgia Accrediting Commission; A Secretary of Education; J. J. Tigert; Recent College and High School Sta- THE STANDARD HIGH SCHOOL; SHOULD IT PREPARE FOR COLLEGE OR FOR LIFE?-Superintendent A. H. Moon, Georgia----- THE ORGANIZATION OF THE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL-Professor W. R. BRIEF REPORTS FROM THE FIELD-West, Certain, Olney, Edmonson, 70 Wet 31921 Harvard University, Library of the Graduate School of Education The High School Quarterly Entered as second-class matter October 28, 1912, at the post office at Athens, Ga.. Vol. X. under the Act of March, 1879. OCTOBER, 1921 JOSEPH SPENCER STEWART, A.M., Ped.D., Editor. No. 1 W. L. SPENCER, Montgomery, Ala.; A. B. HILL, Little Rock, Ark.; J. W. BRISTER, Nashville, Tenn.; S. M. S. MARRS, Austin, 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 The Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools of the Southern States. There is probably no other educational association in the South that is doing more for the standardization of the colleges and secondary schools than the above association. It has long stood for the highest ideals in college education and in recent years has through its Southern Commission on Accredited School exerted a powerful influence in standardizing high school work in the thirteen southern states. Recently through its Commission on Higher Institutions it has undertaken to prepare a list of accredited colleges. At the Chattanooga meeting, 1920, certain amendments were proposed to the by-laws to be acted upon at the December meeting to be held in Birmingham. One of these amendments requires the Commission on Secondary Schools and the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education to make their reports to the Executive Committee of the Association for approval instead of to the Association itself. For years the Commission on Secondary Education has made its report through its president or secretary directly to the Association. Some opposition to the proposed change has developed. It is thought that a Commission with thirty-nine members, three from each of the thirteen states, who are in close touch with the situation; that was created by the Association ought not to report to any less body than the Association itself. Why should a Commission of thirty-nine have to report for approval to a Committee of seven? Often times members of the Executive Committee are members of one of the Commissions. At present five of the seven members of the Executive Committee are members of the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education. This would be giving five members of that Commission power to overrule or approve the work of the entire Commission! These two Commissions are the real working body of the Association and their work ought not to be sidetracked to the Executive Committee. Such action is about as parliamentary as for the Committee on Appropriations in a legislative body to have to report to the Committee on Rules. A suggestion has come from many quarters that some arrangement should be made by which schools that are on the Southern Accredited List may more easily become members of the Association. In the North Central Association hundreds of high schools are reported in the membership. In the Southern there are only a dozen public high schools in the membership. This matter deserves the most serious consideration of the Association at its meeting in December. As long as the Commisson on Secondary Schools must collect its fees for expenses from schools that are not members of the Association the question has been raised as to whether the Commission should continue to expend these funds or be required to turn them over to the treasurer of the Association |