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YOUR Committee are able to report that the quantity, if not the quality, of the teaching of science subjects in elementary schools has made progress during the past year. The following table, made up from the return issued by the Education Department, gives the figures for the scientific class subjects as compared with English. In the report for last year it was mentioned that the number of school departments taking object lessons would greatly increase, as the Government code of regulations announced that they would become obligatory in the three lower standards on and after September 1, 1896. We now see the result, so far as the schools are concerned whose school year ended between August 31, 1896, and August 31, 1897, but the full effect cannot appear until the next year's return, the whole of which will be in the obligatory period.
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The Teaching of Science Elementary Schools1. Nature 59, 91–93 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/059091a0
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