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the 6-3-3elt', ""' -- three in jun- tope high school, 'and threeý in Senior hi hëoôl. In su Ch a district as ousthe change to this ýplan frorri oUrpesent eight elertarY and fOur high 1 ý oOl grades reqiuires9 specigl -legislation. 1rhe getmjritY of schools, in. pluios otsdé Chicago have the one- uit plan; that 1s, the m thdo a *key please abolit..rrangingth grades In their oWn sçhoolS. LmkTixi IPWér A ruch. sinaller percelitage,. of sChÔols have high eschool districts' overlapp1rlg the elemnentaty districts as we have in New Trier townshiP. In such an, arrangeme nt the elemnen- tary grades are taken care of locàllY in each village and the high sehool is a separate systern. The high school has one~ taiXtfg POew.r and the. grades another. The elemneitary school cari carry on the high school> grades leg ally but it bas no extra taxirig power for it. There must be some legislation which will finance that extra load on the elemnertary school. .Wouid Require Contract The new bill beirig prepared for introduction in this session of thel State Legislature is f or the purposei - . - ah 41phool trienterl ,is wnal i.Dewey na-- - A - -the continuity of learning with do- - n excellent, u1iustatLearuv ný_1 ýNoschool bas been educatiofal progress. iný an& living" oPARINT'S MAGAZINE ableý to escape Dewey's influence. and miodern 'schools have taken A> populaiýr maLazine for parentst into their courses of study the scl- adtahr e1n ihpolTi ences, the social studies, and theéfcidhnln adudrtidfg corrmonskils nd ino ars. Offiial organ for the Progressive The latest developmnents and in- Educa tion association. I t has orig- terpretations of new idéas are ai-t l ae - nthe h >wer practices ways found in. magazines. Books in education. catch up with information and cum-, SCHOOL, AND SOCIETY ulate the. knowledge. -But one cani- A. magazine of general interesi not wait for, such. cumulations, and to the, educational world, Discusses the Wilmette' Public library sub- educationail even ts, sÉurveys a nd re- scribes to the following magazines ports of original studies. which prescrit thé problems, ofe SCHOOL, LIFE sol utions and 'stimulate one to fur- Surveys the. trends of educationi ther activity, i the United States as the official CHILDHOOD EDUCATION organ of the, Office of Educatiari. Thi s is the officiai journal of theé SOCIALý FRONTIERS Associationi for Childhood Education. "An outspoken, vigorous organ for, and covers problems and methods educatars who consider the social for niursery school. ictgart1r and ftin¶tion of a&ieati4n more ixnpoiit- priniary school educatiôri. arit than a restrîcted anid technical JOURNAL 0F ADULT EDUCATION; professioflallsmT. Si ggests Parents Make Study of T$ovie Pro grams Do 1 talk with thcm afteirwards about the movie. helpingý to Point Out certain things. ta explain, others, and to sec that the gerieral effect bas beén wholcsome? Each schoo.i. church and club. in t fip iii feis repnresented on the To teach or not ta teach phonieCs has been a moot question . gxiôfg educators for the past number of years. Phonies, or the study of the sounds that make up words, used to oc cuPY a large part1of the Urne on the dailye programi of the, average first grade. It was totally isolated fromr the reading work and children. spent ho urS repeatilg rneaninlgless, groupS: of words. 1We. cari ail remnember going through lists of charts and one well knowfl list contained these 'words belongilg. to the "at" fanily: bat, scat, brat, gnat, etc. Sorne of these words tunctioned rin the firsf, grade child's reading but most of thern didn't. Detct. Fauty MethOd It was proven by, tests and ob- serva tion that such word drill very definitely hindered the proper train- ing process instead of aiding It. Chldren, became word readers but iwere not able to comprehèhnd wha4' they had read. For a tirne phonies fell in disreptlte but then it was realized that it was not the subi ect that was at fault before. but th .e ;method of teaching it. Again, by experimentàtion anrd 1tests, it bas been found that ýit takes ;a child having a mental age of about seven and a haif to really' 1understafld the intricate companent p3arts of words. Before this timne tr'ci omhler thatLt mst of drift and ineta gard -in g motion pictures.-GraycC w makie up a wora. pay for pupils remanded to the ee- Do 1 know the possible* good and (Mrs'. Il. E. Dalstrom. Logan ewSse mneftary school district and the bill bad .effects of mnovies upon the in- . Howard chairman EmIn ost moew Ssel a h ita simplify finanicinig this ch ange. formation, attitudes, health and con- Ili______Moder____________th ____________ - duct of MY children? prescrit time one finds the phoetic' Have 1 given my children continu- u work. carried out in a much mnoreý E oyHurnoroU lous ex1Yperierice in thinking through. C ol-ferenCes wytabfr. E j usexpeine haihyae on~ eaningu a hn bfre or new epeîn 0 s ha he re.t instance, after the children have du-_ At SniorAssenblyurduly irifiuence ywa ysc Urge Moihers ïo ficùlty with some words in reading Th svnt gae childl'en fromn at the motion picture theater? the teacher afterwards shows the 2-B he m ie d n th e la y "Three Pis How About Standards? Aten Me ti gsphoietic elemerits in the troublesome,: Ini A Bottie," at the last meeting of Havé 1, wîth the help of the par- wrss htte ilb epdt ftnk~e u fuin h ex cktere is to be read other words containing these rhe . gW buck u.jnemenumi; kcoversand went very coun nexttovnig whn 1Ann Straui hé was my care, a bear, ie was jxucn more wise. nonkeyr is where you got your rt!" Ruth, "Oh, what a surprise!" -Janet L. Benge, age, il yrs.