in a part-time industrial class it is essential that workers from one industry, trade or occupation be grouped together, rather than a number of workers from a variety of industries, trades, or occupations. The workers in a machine shop should be grouped together, workers from a woodworking shop should be grouped together. Workers from a woodworking shop and workers from an electrical shop should not be grouped together.

While the investigations of the survey and the report of your committee have been largely directed towards the few part-time industrial classes now in existence, your committee feels that the policy of the Board of Education should be to extend these classes wherever favorable opportunities can be found.

The development of part-time classes in the absence of compulsory legislative enactment is a matter of slow growth in our individualistic communities. If this work is to be extended, steps should be first taken in industries representing large numbers of young workers and where there exists great need of trade extension instruction. The consent of some sympathetically disposed employer for the beginning of part-time classes with his employees should be secured. After such a beginning, efforts should be made through employers, associations and otherwise to secure the consent of all employers in the trade or industry in which the work has been started to release their employees for such instruction during a portion of the working day.

Finally it is obvious that part-time industrial classes cannot always be conducted in commercial establishments, but must be provided for in part at least in school buildings or rooms otherwise secured for the purpose.

Signed,

R. O. SMALL,
E. A. COOLEY,
M. B. KING.

RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION

SURVEY COMMITTEE.

ADMINISTRATION.

Based upon the foregoing findings, it is recommended:

That the administration of industrial education in the public schools of the city center in a director of industrial education responsible to the city superintendent of schools and the board of superintendents.

That the field covered by the director of industrial education be confined to such schools as meet the requirements for state aid and shall not include pre-vocational work, manual training and compulsory continuation school work.

That the director of industrial education be entrusted with as large authority and responsibility as is practicable in the administration of his work.

The committee feel that the Board of Education, the city superintendent and the board of superintendents should recognize that their relation to the director of industrial education would be different in character from their relations with directors of academic branches. While school superintendents have experience and authority in the academic branches, they are usually without experience or special knowledge with respect to industrial education. They should therefore allow a more free-hand to the director of industrial education than they might be willing to grant to the supervisor of high schools or of branches of the work in elementary schools.

That four assistant directors be provided to assist the director of industrial education as follows: An assistant director of day vocational schools for boys; an assistant director of evening trade classes for boys and men; an assistant director of co-operative and voluntary part-time classes; and an assistant director of vocational work for girls.

That according to the terms of the accompanying chart the assistant director of day vocational schools for boys shall deal with the principals of such schools, the principals with the department heads and the department heads with the teachers.

That the assistant director of evening trade schools for boys and men shall deal with the principals of such schools, and the principals with the teachers.

That the assistant director of co-operative and voluntary parttime classes shall deal with the co-ordinators of co-operative classes and the supervisors of part-time classes and these with the respective teachers.

That the assistant director of vocational work for girls shall deal with the principals of day vocational schools for girls which are or may be established; and with the principals of evening trade schools for girls, the principals of day schools with department heads, these department heads and the principals of evening schools with the teachers.

That in order to insure the essential co-operation of the trades and industries in the administration of industrial education advisory committees, consisting of employers and employees be appointed by the Board of Education for each of the trades of printing, carpentry, machine work and electrical work, such committees to consist of seven persons each, three of whom shall be selected from trade employers associations, three from labor organizations, and that these six shall nominate one additional member who shall be a layman. In the first instance two members from each of the above trade groups shall be appointed for a term of one year, two for a term of two years and two for a term of three years, and the lay member for a term of three years. Thereafter as the term of such members shall expire, the vacancies caused thereby shall be filled for a full term of three years.

It is clear that the function of such committees cannot legally be those of control or veto, but it also seems clear that if they are accorded very specific advisory powers and definite provision be made for the consideration of their recommendations the way will be opened for the exertion of a very real and important influence on their part.

That the relations of such advisory committees should be with the director of industrial education, and this officer should be instructed before action is taken upon such matters, to invite the recommendations of the committees as to the establishment of new industrial schools and classes; the selection of equipment; the content and length of the courses of study; the requirements for graduation and certification; the number of pupils admitted to day vocational schools.

Furthermore, where questions of policy are concerned the committee believe it is highly desirable that the Board of Education obtain the advice of these committees as the only means of guarding itself against the danger of losing touch with the changing conditions of the trade.

EMPLOYMENT AND LICENSING OF TEACHERS IN VOCATIONAL SCHOOLS. The committee recommends:

That the board of examiners appoint a special committee for each distinctive trade for which there is need of teachers in either shop or related shop subjects, the members of the committee to be appointed for one year and to be re-appointed as long as their services are satisfactory and they are willing to serve.

That each committee consists of three members, one of whom should be a member of the examining board in order to correlate the work of the board and its special committee and two of whom should be persons experienced in their knowledge of the trade and of education for the trade.

That the two lay members of the committee be paid a per diem rate for the actual time given to the duties assigned them as herein described.

It is the conviction of the survey committee that the special committee on the certification of teachers for any given trade should be regarded only as an agency used by the board to assist it in the difficult and highly specialized task of obtaining competent instructors for the schools in the shop and related shop subjects of that trade and that all authority to pass finally upon the case of any applicant rests and should rest with the board of examiners. Furthermore, that the function of the committee should be to advise as to the conduct and standards of the examinations and recommendations in rating of applicants. All the papers regarding the applicant should be filed with the board. That male applicants for licenses for teaching shop subjects should not be less than 25 years of age nor more than 40, and women applicants not less than 23 nor more than 40 years, which is the present regulation of the Board of Education for regular teachers, but that the proviso be made that this requirement should not apply to substitute teachers already in the service or to a successful teacher over 40 years of age desiring to enter the service in New York.

That the applicant should, if a man, present evidence of at least five years of approved and successful experience in industrial work subsequent to the period of his apprenticeship in the shop work which he desires to teach. That in the case of a woman, the applicant should present evidence of two years' suc cessful experience in the trade or occupation approved by the committee or its equivalent; and demonstrate as the committee may determine her trade skill or knowledge.

That the teacher of a shop subject should be required to have at least a common school education, or its equivalent.