”The study, as set up by Mr. Sherlock, will involve inter- provincial transfers, intra-provincial transfers, as well as a cross- section of children who have attended schools in countries other than Canada. It will:

1. attempt to assemble some statistics on the mobile child, 2. look at curriculum differences,

3. attempt to discover what effects mobility and curriculum differences have on the progress of the child in school.

“The Prince Edward Island pilot area will include a selected cross-section of Island schools, including Parkside School in Summerside, and the school at the Airforce base. Mr. Sherlock cautioned against the use of the present figures which are not complete, but since returns on the initial survey have begun to come in there is an indication that mobility is stimulating to the top third of the class and disrupting to the slow learner. Evaluation in this study is being done at the elementary school level, with emphasis on math and reading."

The Conference added some additional comments: ”Emo- tional and social adjustment problems are closely related to the effects of mobility on the education of the child and these do not readily detach themselves from educational problems." It was suggested that Home and School has a role to play in helping families cope with emotional and social transition from area to area.

Following the 1967 Annual Meeting, Mr. Sherlock’s study on mobility was continued under the aegis of the Canadian Home and School and Parent-Teacher Federation. Statistics available from the Dominion Bureau of Statistics appeared to indicate that fear of adverse effects on the children tends to prevent families from becoming mobile as their children progress through school. Should research prove that effects are not adverse, parents might move more readily. In any event, the P.E.l, Federation is proud of being the initiator of this study.

EDUCATIONAL PLANNING

In 1969 a plan called a Development Plan for Prince Edward Island was signed by the federal government in Ottawa and the provincial government. This Plan was divided into sectors

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