TIME GIVEN TO HANDWRITING
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| Hours per year | Per cent of grade time
|-----------------------|------------------------
Grade | Cleveland | 50 cities | Cleveland | 50 cities
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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
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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."

LANGUAGE, COMPOSITION, GRAMMAR

The schools devote about the usual amount of time to training for the
correct use of the mother tongue. Most of the time in intermediate
and grammar grades is devoted to English grammar. Composition receives
only minor attention.

TABLE 6.--TIME GIVEN TO LANGUAGE, COMPOSITION, AND GRAMMAR
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| Hours per year | Per cent of grade time
|-----------------------|------------------------
Grade | Cleveland | 50 cities | Cleveland | 50 cities
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1 | 79 | 75 | 10.9 | 8.6
2 | 95 | 79 | 10.8 | 8.7
3 | 79 | 94 | 9.0 | 10.3
4 | 104 | 106 | 11.8 | 10.9
5 | 120 | 116 | 13.6 | 12.0
6 | 120 | 118 | 13.6 | 12.2
7 | 125 | 134 | 14.3 | 13.7
8 | 125 | 142 | 14.3 | 14.1
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Total | 847 | 864 | 12.3 | 11.4
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In the teaching of grammar too much st