Identifier: annualreportofb1819scho (find matches)
Title: Annual report of the Board of Education of School District Number One in the City and County of Denver, Colorado
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: School District Number One in the City and County of Denver, Colorado. Board of Education
Subjects: Public schools Public schools
Publisher: Denver, Colo. : Merchants Pub.
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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of books, and schools were urged to buy asfew books as possible. As in other lines of production conditions inbook manufacture have been far from normal. Shortage of paper,ink, cotton, copper, and other metals, together with unusual laborand transportation problems, have greatly increased the cost of text-books. The amount required for texts in annual budgets of schoolsystems has been doubled, not only because of increase in pub-lishers prices, but because amounts of texts purchased have beenreduced for three years. An additional reason for witholding purchases of textbooks isthe change in content of some subjects due to the war. Geography,history, and civics are being rewritten, music readers revised, andscience extended. The modern school book is usually a model inits mechanical execution, and to be of real value it must be the lastword on its subject. School work may be greatly handicapped bythe use of out-of-date editions of texts; no course of study canadequately supply the lack.
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Denver Public Schools 29 For the current year, music was carried on in our schools with-out a text. One of the most serious problems to a large schoolsystem is to furnish a supply of reading matter rich in content andamount. Data published in The American School Board Journalbased on a study of 1914 and 1919 list prices of five readers andarithmetics by five publishers indicate an average per cent increaseof from 12 to 33. The per cent increase in price of lower-grade ele-mentary books and high-school classics is much greater than of otherbooks. The increase in one classic is 157 per cent. Purchases of books are made in our system only after a mostthorough study of the needs of the children and the probable use-fulness and life of the text. Such studies are made by committees of people of expert judg-ment within our own corps. Large orders of books for use beginningnext year are a series of music books and certain additions to com-mercial texts. Following are the reports of committees

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