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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. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ...attempted form at present. The teachers in nearly every city have some provision for this object, although it is often carried on in a very informal way.4 This form of activity is of course almost exclusively confined to local associations. 1 Wm. McAndrew, Where Education Breaks Down, Ed. Rev. 33: 22. 4Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, New York, North Dakota, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming. 3 Specific evidence of such activity on the part of one or more organizations in each city within the last five years has been found in the following cities: Albany, N. Y., Baltimore, Boston, Brooklyn, Canton, Chicago, Cincinnati, Denver, Elmira, N. Y., Grand Rapids, Mich., Indianapolis, Jersey City, Memphis, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Nashville, New Orleans, Newark. New York, Paterson, N. J., Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Providence, R. I., St. Joseph, Mo., St. Louis, St. Paul, San Francisco, Tacoma, Terre Haute, Topeka, Troy, N. Y., Washington. 3. The movement for pensions is, on the whole, very recent. The National Education Association in 1891 passed the following resolution: "Justice as well as the best public service requires the retirement and pensioning of teachers after a service of thirty years, and upon carefully devised conditions. We recommend the enactment of laws in the states to permit and regulate the retirement and pensioning of professional teachers."5 And, in 1903, it appointed the committee before mentioned, apparently at the instance of city teachers working through the Illinois and New York delegations. In the state associations, the matter of pensions is being seriously considered in various parts of the country, but it is not so...
