...insecurity of superintendents in their positions, and the undue security of the teachers in theirs. "The office of teacher in the average American school is perhaps the only one in the world which can be retained indefinitely in spite of the grossest negligence and incompetency." After the...

...may select for the purpose. And once a teacher is appointed, her position, in many cities, is secure. The office of teacher in the average American school...spite of the grossest negligence and incompetency. It is in the appointment and discharge of superintendents and teachers that politics plays the greatest...

...of twenty-five years, that of the American is five years. In spite of this, " The office of teaching in the average American school is perhaps the only...that can be retained indefinitely in spite of the poorest incompetence." (Dr. Rice). Just as, in considering the strength of the English teaching staff,...

...the appointment of teachers and the management of the schools. " The office of teacher," he says, " in the average American school is perhaps the only...spite of the grossest negligence and incompetency, this result being due to the mischievous influence of politics." This influence, as Dr. Rice elsewhere...

...adequate, teaching training and selection and the use of "scientific methods" in schools. Rice saw that "the office of teacher in the average American school...indefinitely in spite of the grossest negligence and incom potency" (1893, p. 15). Similar to Emerson. Rice was most concerned with how teachers taught...

...school) teachers are too weak to stand alone." "The office of teacher in the average American public school is. perhaps, the only one in the world that can be retained for an indefinite period, in spite of flagrant incompetence and negligence." In the New World, Chicago,...