HANDWRITING
Cleveland gives a considerably larger proportion of time to handwriting than the
average of the 50 cities.
TABLE 5.—TIME GIVEN TO HANDWRITING
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| Hours per year | Per cent of grade time |———————————-|
———————————— Grade | Cleveland | 50 cities | Cleveland | 50
cities ———————————————————————————— 1
| 47 | 50 | 6.5 | 6.7 2 | 63 | 60 | 7.2 | 6.7 3 | 63 | 52 | 7.2 | 5.7 4 | 63 | 53 | 7.2 | 5.5
5 | 67 | 50 | 6.4 | 5.1 6 | 47 | 47 | 5.4 | 4.8 7 | 47 | 39 | 5.4 | 3.9 8 | 32 | 37 | 3.6 |
3.7
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Total | 419 | 388 | 6.1 | 5.1
————————————————————————————The curriculum of handwriting resolves itself mainly into questions of method,
and of standards to be achieved in each of the grades. These matters are treated
intensively in the section of the survey report entitled "Measuring the Work of
the Public Schools."