The Texas Standard, Volume 22, Number 2, March-April 1948 Page: 10
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TEXAS STANDARD
The Teacher
Shortage
Some of the developments of the past
year have helped to ease the teacher short-
age, at least in high schools. The exodus
of teachers to other fields has perceptibly
slowed and in some parts of the country
former teachers have returned to the field.
School boards have not been compelled to
employ quits so many applicants who are
not adequately prepared for their work
and there has bsen some decline in the
average size of classes.
These gains, too, however, must be
seen in perspective. While overcrowding
is evidently somewhat less severe than
last year, some communities are still un-
able to keep classes down to ideal size.
There are still about 100,000 teachers in
the schools who do not meet professional
certification requirements. In several
States as many as one-fourth of all teach-
ers hold only emergency teaching certifi-
cates. Millions of children are still being
taught by inadequately prepared teachers
and crowded into classes where they can-
not hope to get a reasonable amount of
individual attention.
The teacher shortage is particularly
severe in elementary schools and in rural
schools. In city secondary schools the
shortage is largely concentrated in such
fields as art, music, physical education,
mathematics, industrial arts, science, home
economics, and commercial subjects.
(Excerpt from "Citizens Look at Educa-
tion," a progress report by the Citizens
Federal Committee on Education, 1947-
48, Federal Security Agency. U. S. Of-
fice of Education)
People And
The World
9 Continued from Page 8
the tax dollar, the changed styles of hair-
do.
All of this is particularly important in
attempting to understand the problem of
the south. The way of the south is the
way of the folk. Now just how wrong or
right are things? Are they not as wrong,
or right, as the people want them? Is
the Marshall Plan wrong? Is the Labor
Government in England wrong? Is some-
thing terrible going to happen in India?
In Greece? In Palestine? Is the atomic
bomb good or bad? The answers are
bound up in the people.
This democracy of ours is founded upon
a faith in the judgment of the people as
a whole. It is founded upon a belief that
when people are informed honestly and
clearly—their conscience and their com-
Ira B. Bryant
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of Booker T. Washington High School,
Houston.
During his work as teacher and as prin-
cipal, Mr. Bryant has found it possible
to give freely of his time to civic and
community activities. He is a member of
the Good Hope Baptist Church and is
idnetified with the following civic or-
ganizations: Board of Management of
the Y. M. C. A., Mayor's Commission of
City Planning, Chairman of Negro Di-
vision of Red Cross, Vice President of
Southern Association of Negro Colleges
and Secondary Schools, a member of the
Phi Delta Kappa Scholarship Fraternity,
the National Society for the Study of Edu-
cation, and the Omega Psi Phi Fratternity.
Mr. Bryant is also the author of the
following publications: Development of
Houston Negro Schools; The Texas Negro
Under Six Flags; The History of the Negro
Church of Houston; and two monograms—
Follow-up Studies of Negro High School
Graduates, 1936-37 and The Use of the
Library at Phillis Wheatley, 1938.
In selecting Mr. Bryant the Committee
feels that he can represent the teachers
as they should be represented, for he has
wide experience in problems of education
and a deep insight in the educational de-
velopment of the Negro youth.
From The
President's Office
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annual musical so that high schools par-
ticipating will have an opportunity to
make plans before this school year closes.
We have just closed the period of
evaluation of pupil progress by the teacher.
It should be remembered, however, that
not only is this a period of pupil evalu-
ation but also a period of teacher evalu-
ation. Teachers are constantly being
evaluated by pupils, parents, and the com-
munity.
What the pupil thinks of the teacher
usually determines what the parent
thinks of the teacher and the parents'
opinion determines largely how the public
and school officials appraise the teacher.
Through such a process teachers are rated
as superior, good, average, or poor. Of
course such rating has its faults, for often
it is based on general impression and fre-
quently is biased and very inaccurate;
nevertheless it is the most accepted way
of evaluating a teacher. Teacher rating
determines the selection, salary, and dis-
missal of teachers.
With the educational changes and dis-
cussions facing teachers today every
teacher is being evaluated from many
angles and by the public at large; hence
I suggest that each teacher use the safe
defense—Self Evaluation.
LAUGHS
"Children," said the school mistress to
her class of young hopefuls, "I want you
all to write an essay on "The Funniest
Thing I Ever Saw."
The class commenced, but one small
boy managed to finish before the others.
"Let me see your effort first," said the
teacher.
The boy produced a paper, on which
was written."
"The funniest thing I ever saw was
too funny for words."
COP'S MISTAKE
* As soon as I saw you come around
the curve, I said to myself, "Forty-five
at least."
Well, you're away off. • It's this hat
that makes me look so old."
BAD CASE
"How's your wife's mental condition
since the psychiatrist has been treating
her?"
"She's better, but the psychiatrist went
nuts."
Professor—Tell me one or two things
about John Milton.
Plebe—Well he got married and wrote
"Paradise Lost." Then his wife died, and
he wrote "Paradise Regained."
mon sense can be relied upon to carry
us safely through any crises.
There is only one way to have a better
world, and that is to have better people
in it. It might be added that unless we
do have better people in it, before very
long we won't have any world.
AUTO SUGGESTION
"Do you have much variety at your
boarding house?"
"Well, we have three different names
for the meals."
ONE EXCEPTION
"You can take it from me, that if you
want to get on, you must start from the
bottom."
"How about swimming?"
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