Teachers  and  Training.  The  state  employed
8297  teachers.  Of  these  46  per  cent  were  men;
and  19  per  cent  were  for  colored  schools.  No
statistics  are  available  from  which  the  percent-
ages of  teachers  who  have  had  any  kind  of
professional  training  can  be  calculated,  but
something  of  the  professional  status  of  the
teaching  force  can  be  determined  from  the  kinds
of  teachers'  licenses  held.  The  third-grade
license,  based  on  an  examination  in  reading,
writing,  spelling,  grammar,  arithmetic,  geog-
raphy, and  U.S.  history,  and  good  for  only  6
months,  was  held  by  22  per  cent  of  the  teachers:
the  second-grade  license,  based  on  the  third-
grade  subjects  and  the  history  of  Arkansas,
physiology,  and  the  theory  and  practice  of
teaching,  in  addition,  and  valid  for  1  year,  was
held  by  31  per  cent  of  the  teachers;  the  first-
grade  license,  based  on  the  second-grade  sub-
jects and  civil  government  and  elementary
algebra,  in  addition,  and  good  for  2  years,  was
held  by  45  per  cent  of  the  teachers;  state
licenses,  based  on  the  first-grade  subjects  and
an  examination  in  algebra,  plane  geometry,
general  history,  rhetoric,  and  civil  government,
in  addition,  and  good  for  6  years;  and  life
diplomas,  issued  on  still  further  examination
in  physics,  mental  philosophy,  Latin,  natural
history,  constitutions  of  Arkansas  and  the  U.S.,
and  art  of  teaching,  were  together  held  by  but
2  per  cent  of  the  teachers.  It  is  impossible
to  separate  the  percentages  for  white  and
negro  teachers.
