This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ... Ill Selecting The Course Advisory Boards Once the answers to the inquiries suggested in our opening section have been fully formulated and the kinds and types of schools that should be established have been decided upon, it devolves at once upon the local authorities to prepare courses of study presenting the nature and details of the instruction to be given in each course and in each subject of the course. Where this instruction is to deal with direct prevocational training, trade-preparatory material, trade-extension work, or actual trade instruction for pupils over sixteen years of age, it is advisable and well-nigh absolutely necessary to associate with the authorities directing the work an advisory board of representative citizens to assist in the formation of courses. An advisory board may or may not have executive powers, and its function differs from those of the regular board of education in that the former is a group of specially selected men who are particularly fitted to give advice regarding the actual subject-matter to be taught and may not have any authority over the autonomy of the school, whereas the latter directs the actual business conduct of the institution and seldom is capable of giving expert advice regarding the information to be imparted or the means and methods used to impart it. An advisory board should consist of from five to seven members, excepting where there are a large number of trades in one school, when it is well to have each trade represented on the board. In some cases it is found better to have a separate board for each skilled trade taught. This insures careful supervision of the material used for instruction, but may prove exceedingly awkward unless the function of such boards is purely advisory...