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of fifty teachers to a supervisory official. The State pays two-thirds of the salaries of these officials. The large progressive school systems of Cleveland and Detroit have a supervising principal for each group of twenty-five professionally trained teachers, localized in a single building. Continuing the use of standardized teats begun in 1921, in October of 1923, and again in May, 1924, nearly 70,000 white elementary school children in grades above the first were given state-wide standardized tests in reading and arithmetic. As a result of the careful diagnosis of the results, teachers under the leadership of the supervisors adopted measures to effect a cure of the weaknesses disclosed with encouraging results'. In May, most of the grades have scores "up to standard and the growth between October and May in the majority of cases has been more than normal. All colored elementary pupils above the second grade were tested twice this yea rin reading, and all first year high school pupils in Eng- lish. These results, as well as age-grade studies, the comparative mate- rial in the annual reports regarding enrollment, attendance, the teach- ing staff and school finances, and the' computation of the Equalization Fund, have been the work of the Bureau of Educational Measurements. The index number for judging educational efficiency based on five items which evaluate attendance and five which indicate public interest as proved by financial support of schools, continues to show improve- ment for Maryland. For 1923 it registers 72.8 points in the entire State and 60.7 in the twenty-three counties, including both white and colored schools. This is anincrease of 4.7 points for the counties and 7.7 points for the State, including Baltimore City. In 1918 the index number for Maryland was 43.2 points. The goal is 100. 1923 EDUCATIONAL INDEX NUMBER FOR MARYLAND. Increase
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