Agreement between Teacher and Board of Trustees. Blanks for Superintendent's Annual Report. Blanks for Superintendent's Report of Census Statistics. Labels for District Library Books. WE ONCE more call the attention of County Superintendents to the new blanks we have sent for the taking of this year's census. Use none but the new blanks. County Superintendents must accept no reports, except the instructions printed on the back of the blank have been strictly complied with. These instructions are as follows: 1. Obtain from the Trustees or County Superintendent the exact boundaries of your District. 2. The law requires you to visit each habitation, house, residence, domicil or other place of abode in your District, and to enumerate the census children of the same by actual observation and interrogation. 3. Report all the statistics asked for. Incomplete reports are not to be accepted by the County Superintendent. Do not fail to read the headings of the different columns to be filled in. 4. Include in your report all children (whose parents or guardians are residents of the District) that are absent, attending institutions of learning. Do not include in your report children who are attending institutions of learning or such benevolent institutions as the Deaf and Dumb, Blind and Orphan Asylum, in your District, but whose parents or guardians do not reside therein. 5. If your District lies partly in two adjoining counties, you must report to the Superintendent of each county the full statistics for each county. 6. Be particular that the children listed in columns 1, 2 and 3 are properly distributed into columns 5, 6 and 7. In listing the children who have attended private schools at any time during the year, be careful to list only those who have not attended public schools, but private schools only. 7. Foot up each column. Check your additions. The sum of the totals of columns 5, 6 and 7 must equal the sum of the totals of columns 1, 2 and 3. 8. You must subscribe to the annexed oath, and deliver, on or before the first day of July, a copy of this report to the County Superintendent, aud a duplicate copy to the School Trustees. 9. According to Section 1640 of the Political Code, if the Census Marshal neglect or refuse to make his report at the time and in the manner herein required, and to perform any other duty devolved upon him, he must be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction, be punished by fine or imprisonment. EVERY CENSUS MARSHAL must subscribe to the annexed oath: I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that the facts set forth in the within report are just and true, according to the best of my knowledge and belief, and were collected in strict accordance with law and the instructions given above. So help me God. Sworn and subscribed to before me, a and State of California, this School Census Marshal. Anno Domini 187 NOTE.-This oath may be administered by any School Trustee, or the County Superintendent of Common Schools. INSTRUCTIONS TO COUNTY SUPERINTENDENTS.-1. Section 1551 of the Political Code provides that "each School Superintendent in this State must, on or before the first day of August, in each year, report to the Superintendent of Public Instruction, and to the Board of Supervisors of their respective counties, the number of children in their counties between the ages of five and seventeen years, as appears by the latest returns of the Census Marshals on file in this office." The data derived from these reports must be reported by the Superintendent of Public Instruction to the Controller, on or before the tenth day of August of each year. A strict compliance on the part of the Superintendent of Public Instruction with this provision of the law, is necessary to insure the levying of the State school tax. County Superintendents will, therefore, see the necessity of promptly reporting to us; their reports must be sent in time enough that they be on file in this office on or before the first day of August. Any neglect on the part of the County Superintendent to send the report, or to send it in time, may endanger the State apportionment for his county. 2. In making out this report, be careful to assure yourself of the correctness of the Census Marshals' Reports. See that the Instructions to Census Marshals have been fully attended to by the Census Marshals. 3. Reject all Census Marshals' Reports which show evidence of fraud or errors on their face. See especially that the same children are not listed in more than one report. 4. Report all the statistics asked for. Incomplete reports will not be accepted, but will be treated as no reports. Do not fail to read the headings of the different columns to be filled in. 5. Be particular that the children listed in columns 1, 2 and 3 are properly distributed into columns 5, 6 and 7. 6. Foot up each column. Check your additions. The sum of the totals of columns 5, 6 and 7 must equal the sum of the totals of columns 1, 2 and 3. 7. Keep a copy of the report, and enter it in your Annual Report. 8. You must subscribe to the annexed oath, which may be taken before the County Clerk, or any officer authorized to administer oaths: I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that the facts set forth in the within report are just and true, according to the best of my knowledge and belief, and were collected in strict accordance with law and the instructions given above, from the latest Census Marshals' Reports on file in my office. So help me God. School Sup't of. and State of California, this Sworn and subscribed to before me, a County. of the County of day of Anno Domini 187 THE BLANKS for making the above report are already printed, and will be mailed on or before the first of June. Every County Superintendent ought to be able to have the Report mailed by the tenth or fifteenth of July, and we earnestly request County Superintendents to send in their Reports at the earliest practical moment. We shall have to examine every report before we can compile our report to the Controller. Besides, we need the data furnished by the Reports in order to furnish, through the August number of the TEACHER, County Superintendents with the information necessary to comply with the provisions of Section 1817 of the Political Code. THE COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT'S Annual Report, required by subdivision 14 of Section 1543, is due at this office on or before the tenth of August. We draw thus early the attention of County Superintendents to this matter that it may not happen again, as it did last year, that a County Superintendent did not commence to collect his statistics till the very day when the Report was due at this office. The Law provides now that if a County Superintendent fails to make a full and correct report at the time fixed by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, he forfeits one hundred dollars of his salary. No days of grace will be given. All reports must be on file in this office by the tenth of August, otherwise the Board of Supervisors will immediately be notified that the County Superintendent has failed to make a report. Last year we enforced the penalty in only one instance; this year we hope not to be compelled to enforce it in a single instance. THE NECESSARY blanks will be mailed on or before the first of June, and County Superintendents are urged to enter for every district the statistics as they are reported by Teachers, Trustees or Census Marshals. Set the whole of July apart for the making out of the Report, and do not wait till the last moment, and then find that all the Reports have not been received. WE CALL the attention of Teachers and County Superintendents to subdivisions 1 and 2 of Section 1696, by which every teacher, before assuming charge of a school, must file his certificate with the County Superintendent, and on taking charge of a school, or on closing a term of school, immediately notify the County Superintendent of such fact. A warrant must be drawn in favor of a teacher only when he has strictly complied with these provisions of the law, as well as performed all the other duties prescribed by Law. By the above quoted provisions, teachers will be prevented from assuming charge of a school except they are the holders of certificates in full force and effect, and thus a very serious trouble, which has heretofore frequently arisen, is avoided. Then, by holding the certifi cate till the teacher has notified him of the closing of the school, the County Superintendent can always compel a teacher to hand in his reports, and we avoid then the not unfrequent occurrence of a teacher closing his school, selling his Trustees' Order, and leaving the district and county without reporting to the County Superintendent. LIST OF DIPLOMAS AND CERTIFICATES granted by the State Board of Examination from January 10 to April 20, 1874. The date following immediately after the name, gives the time of the expiration of the diploma or certificate. [In the list of Holders of Life Diplomas, published in the last Biennial Report, page 288, second line from the bottom, read Miss Jessie Smith for Miss Jennie Smith. In the list of Holders of Diplomas and Certificates, published in the February number of the TEACHER, page 280, seventh line from the bottom, read Margaret I. Crothers for Caroline H. Crothers.] Educational Diplomas. Bragg, Miss M. J., Feb. 19, 1880. Kimball, C. A., April 10, 1880. First Grade Certificates. Aaron, Miss Amelia, March 24, 1878. Kent, Isabelle B., March 24, 1878, Young, Nestor A., Feb. 19, 1878. Second Grade Certificates. Banks, Lizzie, April 10, 1877. Manley, Geo. P., Jan. 17, 1877. Third Grade Certificates. Chapman, Miss F. L., March 24, 1876. Mulgrew, Cassie A., April 10, 1876. BOOK NOTICES. THE EDUCATION of American GIRLS. Considered in a Series of Essays. Edited by Anna C. Brackett. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. San Francisco: A. Roman & Co. This book undoubtedly owes its origin to the appearance of Dr. Clark's Sex in Education; and impliedly, though not professedly, it is a protest against the conclusions arrived at by Dr. Clark. The reader will thus naturally first weigh the controversial value of the book, and must then confess himself greatly disappointed. Those portions of the book whose immediate object is the controversion of Dr. Clark's position, are the most unsatisfactory, in plan and execution, of the essays composing the book. Leaving, however, these portions aside, and considering only those articles which can be considered as independent contributions to the cause of girls' education, the book is interesting and instructive, and will prove a worthy and timely contribution to popular education. ESSAYS ON EDUCATIONAL REFORMS. By Robert Herbert Quick. Cincinnati: Robert Clark & Co. Price $2 00. This book gives an interesting account of the schools of the Jesuits; and the leading characteristics of the pedagogical systems of Ascham, Montaigne, Ratich, Milton, Comenius, Locke, Rousseau, Basedow and the Philanthropin, Pestalozzi, Jacotot and Herbert Spencer. The book is a very able one; the different and frequently antagonistic theories are discussed not only with catholicity of spirit, but also with that good judgment which springs from an extensive practical acquaintance with the subject. It would be well for us "were ours one of the countries where it would be considered a truism that a teacher, in order to exercise his profession intelligently, should know something about the chief authorities in it." Those who are honestly desirous that their teaching shall be as good as possible, are comparatively very few, and even these " are not likely to employ the best methods if they invent as they go along, or simply fall back upon their remembrance of how they were taught, perhaps in very different circumstances." They must derive benefit from, and should constantly consult the knowledge of, what has already been said and done by the leading men engaged in education, both past and present. Heretofore this was very difficult on account of the want of books. Professor Seely has deplored the paucity, nay entire absence of works on the history of Education, written in the English language. Says Professor Seely, "Good books are in German. I have found that in the history of Education, not only good books, but all books are in German, or some other foreign language." This want of books in English, has now been partially supplied by the volume under consideration. We trust that |