Evening star., 1934-03-10
EDUCATORS SPEAK
ON ACTIVITY WORK
Responsibility of Home and
School to Be Discussed
Later.
Problems Of activity work in public

Problems Of activity work in public
schools and civic education in the
new era were brought up for discus
sion before delegates of the Progress
sive Education Association regional
conference here today as the con-
vention entered its closing stages at
the Mayf1oWer Hotel
Later sessions are scheduled to
consider questions relating to educa-
ton as a joint responsibility Of the
home and school, evaluation of cur
rent trends in education, new trends
in secondary education, teaching for
international inter-racial understand
ing and the importance of the arts
in education.
Among the prominent speakers ap-
pearing today before the group treat
ing of activity work in the schools
are Sallie B. Marks of North Caro-
lima University, whose subject is
Needed Standards for the Evalua-
ton of Activity Work" and Gerald
S. Craig of Teachers College, New
York, developing Curriculum From
Children's Interests and Experiences. !"
Chairman of that unit Is Miss Ida
Lind, director of primary instruc-
ton in the District pubic schools.
Beale Speaks.
In the civic education division, lie
Roy Bowman of the Child Study AS
sociation, New York, had as his topic
Current Criticisms of Civic Educa-
ton in the Schools" and Howard
Beale of Washington Problems
Teachers Face in Education for Citi-
zenship"
The conference ON integration OF
home and school educational pro-
grams has as chairman Miss Mary
Brown of the National Council OF
Parent Education, and LIE Roy Bow
man is scheduled to speak there also
on How Can School and Home Co
operate in Their Common Tasks?"
Current misunderstanding OF Pro-
greSsive Education" were to be dis
cussed by Alice Keliher Of the Hart
ford, Conn, public schools in the cur
rent trends panel, and a second speak
er listed was Samuel Engle Burr, edu-
cational consultant of the Glendale,
Ohio, public schools, who selected as
a topic Tradition: Barrier to Educa-
tional Progress"
Barclay Jones of the Friends Gen.
trail School, Philadelphia, was installed
as chairman of the group taking up
new trends in secondary education
and speakers before the unit were to
be Arthur Seybold of the Oak Lane
Country Day School in Philadelphia,
Problems in the Reorganization OF
Secondary Education; Gerald S.
Craig. "Reorganizing the Secondary
Curriculum in Science" and Mildred
English of the Raleigh N. c., public
schools, Changes in Public High
School"
Prominent Persons Appear.
Prominent educators from all parts
of the country were invited to appear
at the sessions to participate in dis
cussions.
At a dinner meeting last night dele
gates heard DR.. William F. Russell OF
the Teachers College, Columbia Uni
versity, advocate national taxation to
insure equality of education through
out the country, but warned against
direct Federal control of schools. He
pointed out the measures he proposed
would alleviate conditions in counties
and States where inability to collect
taxes had hampered the school Sys-
tenn
DR.. Goodwin Watson, also OF
Teachers College, outlined a program
for the development of a progressive
educational program, dynamic and
guided by vision that would reveal
the strength and weakness of the old
order"
DR.. William F. Notz, dean of the
Georgetown University Foreign Serv-
ice School, presided and introduced
the sneakers