Carnegie Teaching Exchange Plan

A bulletin issued recently by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching proposes a plan for a permanent arrangement by which teachers of the United States shall be assigned for a year or half-year to schools in Prussia, and vice versa. The instruction to be given by the exchange teacher is the teaching of his own language in a conversational way. He must be a college or university graduate and have been a teacher, though not necessarily of language, for at least a year. His living expenses will be paid by the government of the country to which he goes.

This plan was laid before the Carnegie Foundation last summer by the German Minister of Instruction. It is similar to an exchange system which is now in effect between Prussia on the one side and France and England on the other and which has proved of great value to the school systems of those countries.