The Alaska daily empire., 1915-08-18
OUTSIDE AIDS TO EDUCATION
 IN AMERICA

The education significance Of other than school agencies is emphasized in a current survey of educational progress just issued by the U. S. Bu- reau Of Education.
 "Libraries. museums, and art gal- lerlcs are unlocking their treasures, and seeking Co establish a very direct relation to organized school work k declares w. Carson Ryan. IT,. Editor of the Bureau Numerous other ag- encies and organizations are doing a work whose direct educational in- fuences must in the aggregate be enormous. There are the 300 educa- tional associations. many of them. ike the National Education Associa- tion and its branches. doing direct work in the professional education of teachers and school superintendents; others. like the National Society for the Promotion of Industrial Education carrying on propaganda for education among the general public; and still others. like the Public Education As- sociations of New York and Philadel- phia, Investigating city conditions and stimulating an interest in education amhing the people Of the local com munlty. Organizations like the Rus sell Sage Foundation, the New York Bureau of Municipal Research. the Carnegie Foundation. and the Gener- al Education Board. have brought in- to the work of education the welcome Influence of an impersonal. scientif- ic judgment No record of the year in education would be complete that did not pay tribute to the work these organizations and others of the kind are doing
 "Colleges. universities. and normal schools are going far beyond their own walls in carrying education to the local communities. Nearly half the colleges in the United States did extensive work last year The Fed. eral government itself is realizing as never before the desirability of wide distribution of the scientific information it has collected at large expense of time and money and many of the bulletins and circulars issued by the government are now affecting directly the everyday procedure of education. The Boys and Girls Club work in the Department of Agricul- ture and the circular letter service of the Bureau of Education Illustrates two different types of the information service of the Federal government, both of recent development. In the two years ending June 30, 1914, the Bureau of Education issued l12 mem. bers Of its Bulletin, representing al. most a million separate copies and covering nearly every phase of edu- cational endeavor for the direct use of school officials.
 "A host of other organizations mak ing no claim to a place in the formal school system are nevertheless doing active work of a directly educational nature. The Boy Scouts. the Girl Scouts. the Camp Fire Girls. womens clubs parent-teachers associations musical societies. art centers; these are doing work whose educational importance is only beginning to be apprehended. The influence of the fraternal organizations is directly educative The whole vast field Of religious isntruction in churches and Sunday Schools represents an educa tional problem that is seldom viewed as such because of the larger spirit ual issues that are felt to be involy ed. and because Of the traditional sep aration Of chuch and state in Ameri ca. ChautauQuas. farmers institutes lecture courses. the Grange, Young Mems Christian Association and the Young Women's Christian Association social settlements. summer camps the periodical and newspaper press these are as truly educational agen- cies as the schools"