THE TRAINING OF TEACHERS
IN THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
BY
AMY BLANCHE BRAMWELL, B.Sc.
Late Assistant Mistress at the Ladies’ College, Cheltenham; Lecturer at the
Cambridge Training College for Women Teachers
AND
H. MILLICENT HUGHES
Lecturer on Education and Head of Training Department, University College
South Wales and Monmouthshire
London
SWAN SONNENSCHEIN & CO
NEW YORK: MACMILLAN & CO
1894
Butler & Tanner,
The Selwood Printing Works,
Frome, and London.
PREFACE
In view of the growing interest in secondaryeducation in England, and the important educationalproblems demanding solution, the GilchristTrustees decided, in the early part of1893, to send five women teachers to Americafor the purpose of studying and reportingupon Secondary Schools for Girls and TrainingColleges for Women in different parts of theStates. The Trustees made their intentionwidely known, and invited the governing bodiesof the various women’s colleges and associationsof teachers to submit to them names ofpersons specially qualified. Out of the listof able and experienced women teachers thusfurnished to them, the Trustees, after carefulconsideration of the qualifications of thenumerous candidates, selected the followingfive: Miss Bramwell, B.Sc., Lecturer at theCambridge Training College; Miss Burstall,B.A., Mistress at the North London CollegiateSchool for Girls; Miss Hughes, Lecturer on[iv]Education at University College, Cardiff; MissPage, Head-Mistress of the Skinners’ Company’sSchool for Girls, Stamford Hill, N.; andMiss Zimmern, Mistress at the High School forGirls, Tunbridge Wells. They were awardedtravelling scholarships of one hundred poundseach to enable them to spend two months inthe United States in prosecuting their enquiries.The five scholars visited America in thesummer of 1893, and submitted to the Trusteescarefully prepared Reports, two of which—viz.,those by Miss Bramwell and Miss Hughes—arepresented to the public in this volume.The Trustees have aided in the publicationof these Reports because they believe that aknowledge of the educational systems andexperiments which have been tried in Americacannot fail to be of interest and value to thoseengaged in teaching in the United Kingdom.
R. D. ROBERTS,
Secretary to the Gilchrist Trustees.
Gilchrist Educational Trust,
17, Victoria Street, London, S.W.
1894.