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The Promotion of Peace. I. Suggestions for the Observance of Peace Day (May 18) in Schools; II. Agencies and Associations for Peace. Bulletin, 1913, No. 12. Whole Number 519
Author: Andrews, Fannie Fern, Comp.
Date: 1913-00-00
Type: Collected Works - General
Subjects: Arbitration,Peace,International Organizations,School Activities,Public Schools,Poetry,Foreign Policy,Teachers,National Organizations,War,Costs,Conflict Resolution,Ceremonies

Within the past few years the subjects of international peace and arbitration have come to have a place of importance in schools of all grades in the United States, and the interest in these subjects is increasing from year to year. As one means of fostering this interest many schools observe in a special way the 18th days of May, the anniversary of the assembly of the first Peace Conference at The Hague. On this day the schools give an hour or two to a program of addresses, readings, and recitations pertaining to the subject. Frequently addresses are made by prominent men and women of the community. Anything that gives effective help toward these programs is eagerly sought by teachers and school officers. A bulletin of the Bureau of Education entitled "Peace Day: Suggestions and Materials for its Observance in the Public Schools," issued last year, was called for to the extent of about 50,000 copies. There is now a demand for accurate and comprehensive information in regard to the various organizations and agencies working for international peace, as well as for suitable brief articles on the great principles of the movement, and for poems and quotations of an inspirational nature. This manuscript was prepared to meet this demand. Contents include: (1) Suggested program for the 18th of May; (2) Observance of Peace Day (Ferdinand Buisson); (3) The Opening of the Palace of Peace (A.P.C. Karnebeck); (4) Centenary of the treaty of Ghent; (5) To the teachers of the United States (Bertha von Suttner); (6) One hundred years of peace (W. D. Ainey); (7) The cosmopolitan movement (Louis P. Lochner); (8) Resolutions on peace passed by National Education Association, 1912; (9) A notable empire day circular; (10) Wars and their cost; (11) The Rush-Bagot agreement of 1817; (12) International arbitration treaties; (13) The Hague conferences; (14) The Hague tribunal; (15) The Nobel committee of the Norwegian Parliament; (16) International organizations for peace; (17) Selections for peace day; and (18) Quotations. A bibliography is included. Individual sections contain footnotes. [Best copy available has been provided.]
Report of the Committee of the National Council of Education on Standards and Tests for Measuring the Efficiency of Schools or Systems of Schools. Bulletin, 1913, No. 13. Whole Number 521
Author: Strayer, George Drayton
Date: 1913-00-00
Type: Historical Materials
Subjects: Educational History,Efficiency,School Effectiveness,Program Evaluation,Measurement,Evaluation Methods,School Surveys,Evaluation Criteria,Comparative Analysis,Standards,Public Education,Educational Practices,Investigations,Educational Research,Measurement Techniques,Reports,National Organizations,Public Schools,School Districts,Educational Testing,Bibliographies,Outcomes of Education,Educational Principles,Educational Assessment

Educators and laymen have always expressed opinions with respect to the efficiency of our schools. In recent years there has been developed, along with a refinement in the technique of investigation in education, a remarkable public interest in the attempts to evaluate our educational practice. School inquiries, investigations, or surveys have been conducted, or are planned, in a great many cities throughout the United States. In each case there is the supposition that such an inquiry or investigation will measure the efficiency of the schools. It has not always been clear, either to those making the survey, or to those who read the reports, that three distinct types of measurement have been employed, or three sets of standards or tests applied. It is possible to characterize each investigation, or each part of some of the larger surveys, by one of the three following methods of measurement--first, measurement by personal opinion; second, measurement by comparison; or third, measurement by more or less well-established standards or units. Greater progress will be made in the establishment of standards and tests, and in the development of more adequate measurements of the efficiency of school systems, when we establish a committee, a board, or commission on school efficiency. It is of the utmost importance that this committee or board be representative of the most significant scholarship and of the best administrative practice known to our profession. The body should be constituted by the National Council of Education. Its functions should be as follows: (1) It should offer encouragement, expert advice, and opportunity for publication to those engaged in scientific work in the direction of the derivation of scales of measurement, in the application of such scales or units to actual school situations, or in the establishment in any other manner of standards in relation to public education; (2) It should offer expert advice with respect to the nature and scope of surveys, investigations, or inquiries to be undertaken in any part of the United States; and (3) It should offer to members of our profession engaged in administrative work the opportunity to secure a scientific investigation of their systems of schools under the direction of professional experts. A bibliography is included. [Best copy available has been provided.]
Agricultural Instruction in Secondary Schools: Papers Read at the Third Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Agricultural Teaching, Atlanta, Georgia November 12 1912. Bulletin, 1913, No. 14. Whole Number 522
Author: Department of the Interior, United States Bureau of Education (ED)
Date: 1913-00-00
Type: Historical Materials
Subjects: Agricultural Education,Teaching Methods,Secondary Schools,Agriculture,Agricultural Colleges,Land Use,Special Schools,Conference Papers,Teacher Education,High Schools,Elementary Schools,Questionnaires,Practicums,Demonstration Programs,State Aid,Educational Finance,Vocational Education,Income,Agricultural Laborers,Attendance,Summer Programs

Interest in agricultural education continues to increase. The attempt to teach agriculture is no longer confined to the agricultural college and special agricultural school. Methods of teaching the most important facts and the elementary principles of agriculture are discussed in the meetings of most of our educational associations. There is a large demand from teachers and school officers for any printed matter on this subject that will help them in determining what to teach, and how to teach it, and how to organize schools and adjust courses of study so as to get the best results from the new studies without losing the best in the old. This bulletin consists of papers read before the American Association for the Advancement of Agricultural Teaching at its third annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, November 12, 1912. The papers presented in this bulletin are as follows: (1) The opportunity and responsibility for the preparation of teachers of agriculture (a) by agricultural colleges in their regular courses and classes (H. L. Rusell), (b) by agricultural colleges in special courses and classes organized for this work (Kenyon L. Butterfield); (2) The first year's work in agriculture in the high school (W. G. Hummel); (3) What relation should exist between the experiment stations and the secondary schools of agriculture (A. A. Soule); and (4) The use of land in connection with agricultural teaching (a) in special agricultural schools (C. G. Selvig), (b) in high schools (Rufus W. Stimson), (c) in elementary schools. Appended are: (1) Summary of information from special schools or current bulletins; (2) Demonstration work at Northwest School of Agriculture, Crookston, Minnesota; (3) List of 1912 suggestive topics for &quot;summer practicum&quot; work, Northwest School of Agriculture, Crookston, Minnesota; (4) Massachusetts State-aided vocational agricultural education: Examples of the income of pupils from farm work during attendance at school in 1912; and (5) Questionnaires sent out. Individual sections contain footnotes. [Best copy available has been provided.]
Monthly Record of Current Educational Publications. Bulletin, 1913, No. 15. Whole Number 523
Author: Department of the Interior, United States Bureau of Education (ED)
Date: 1913-05-00
Type: Historical Materials
Subjects: Publications,Educational History,Teaching Methods,Educational Psychology,Child Psychology,Curriculum,Kindergarten,Elementary Schools,Rural Education,Secondary Education,Teacher Education,Teacher Certification,Higher Education,Educational Administration,Governance,Architecture,School Buildings,Hygiene,Sanitation,Physical Education,Sex Education,Play,Playgrounds,Social Development,Child Welfare,Moral Values,Values Education,Religious Education,Vocational Education,Agricultural Education,Business Education,Womens Education,Special Education,Libraries

This bulletin contains a list of the monthly record of current educational publications for May 1913. The publications are organized into two sections: (1) Publications of associations; and (2) Bureau of Education: Recent publications. The Bureau of Education: Recent publications cover the following topics: (1) Educational history; (2) Educational Biography; (3) Present situation; (4) Pedagogics and Didactics; (5) Educational Psychology, Child Study; (6) Special Methods of Instruction; (7) Special Subjects of Curriculum; (8) Kindergarten and Primary School; (9) Rural Education; (10) Secondary Education; (11) Teachers, Training and Professional Status; (12) Higher Education; (13) School Administration; (14) School Management; (15) School Architecture; (16) School Sanitation and Hygiene; (17) Sex Hygiene; (18) Play and Playgrounds; (19) Social Aspects of Education; (20) Child Welfare; (21) Moral and Religious Education; (22) Manual and Vocational Training; (23) Vocational Guidance; (24) Agricultural Education; (25) Commercial Education; (26) Medical Education; (27) Education of Women; (28) Education of Special Classes; and (29) Libraries and Reading. [Compiled by the Library Division of the Bureau of Education, under the direction of John D. Wolcott, acting Librarian. Best copy available has been provided.]
Annotated Bibliography of Medical Inspection and Health Supervision of School Children in the United States for the Years 1909-1912. Bulletin, 1913, No. 16. Whole Number 524
Author: Department of the Interior, United States Bureau of Education (ED)
Date: 1913-00-00
Type: Historical Materials
Subjects: Educational History,Annotated Bibliographies,School Health Services,Physical Examinations,Child Health,Public Health,Health Promotion,Educational Trends,Educational Policy,State Policy,Records (Forms),Supervision,Elementary Secondary Education,School Nurses,Allied Health Occupations Education,Salaries,Health Personnel,Dental Evaluation,Teacher Role,Communicable Diseases,African American Education,American Indian Education,Sanitation,Worksheets,Questionnaires

In the older Greek education one-half of the school day was regularly spent by the Greek boys in exercises and games designed to make them strong and also to teach them the mental significance of sound health. During the middle ages this high ideal of soundness and sanity was lost, and even looked upon as spiritually dangerous. There is emerging to-day a new health consciousness. Medical inspection of school children has for its chief purpose the early discovery of physical defects or disease, so that such defects may be corrected in early life, or that contagion may be reduced to a minimum. The work began in this country less than 20 years ago, but the U.S. is now in the midst of the most rapid development of this part of the public educational service. Information is eagerly sought from all parts of the country. The manuscript hereby transmitted, entitled "Annotated Bibliography of Medical Inspection and Health Supervision of School Children in the United States for the years 1909-1912" was compiled in the Division of School Hygiene and Sanitation of this bureau. It is a digest of the chief literature on this subject published in America during the past four years, and will be very helpful, especially to school and health officers. Appended are: (1) Blanks and records; and (2) School activities in relation to children's eyes. An author and subject index is included. [Best copy available has been provided.]
A Trade School for Girls: A Preliminary Investigation in a Typical Manufacturing City, Worcester, Massachusetts. Bulletin, 1913, No. 17. Whole Number 525
Author: Department of the Interior, United States Bureau of Education (ED)
Date: 1913-00-00
Type: Historical Materials
Subjects: Females,Industrial Training,State Aid,Wages,Womens Education,Trade and Industrial Education,State Boards of Education,Educational History,Research Methodology,Industry,Employment,Tables (Data),Statistical Data

This study of the needs and possibilities of the industrial training of girls and women by the city of Worcester, Massachusetts, was made in the spring and summer of 1911. Three cities, Worcester, Cambridge, and Somerville, through their respective school committees, expressed a willingness to establish trade schools for girls and asked the State board of education through its agents to aid them in the task of setting up the kind of school which would best meet the vocational needs of the female wage earners and receive the approval of the State board of education for State aid under the Massachusetts statutes. The reports resulted in the establishment of trade schools for girls which are now in successful operation in the three cities. The conditions at Worcester were somewhat more favorable for the research work, and the report upon that city was fuller and perhaps, on the whole, more thorough, therefore it is presented in this bulletin. The Worcester report indicates the many problems that need to be taken into consideration in setting up a course of study and a scheme of training for any group of female wage earners. One of the most helpful things which this report does is to call attention to the fact that the character of the trade school established for girls in any city must be entirely dependent upon the conditions which it must face. The information in this bulletin is presented in eight chapters, as follows: (1) The method of investigation; (2) Industrial opportunities for women in Worcester; (3) The exodus of young girls from the schools; (4) Industries which young girls enter; (5) Kinds of work done by young girls; (6) Women-employing industries of Worcester; (7) Summary; and (8) Presentation of material in tabular form. (Contains 8 tables and 37 footnotes.) [This investigation was led by the Research Department of the Women's Educational and Industrial Union of Boston, under the direction of Susan M. Kingsbury and May Allinson. Best copy available has been provided.]
German Industrial Education and Its Lessons for the United States. Bulletin, 1913, No. 19. Whole Number 529
Author: Beckwith, Holmes
Date: 1913-00-00
Type: Historical Materials
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Industry,Industrial Education,Vocational Education,Apprenticeships,Public Opinion,Employers,Employees,Attitudes,Educational History,Administrative Organization,State Legislation,Cultural Differences,Urban Areas,Colleges,Elementary Schools,Secondary Schools

The purpose of the present study is to ascertain in what ways we in the United States may develop industrial education so that it may be of the greatest service to industry and to industrial workers, as well as to the whole people. The economic viewpoint and economic aspects have dominated the pedagogical, and the practical outcome has at all times been kept to the fore. Industrial education for the masses, for the rank and file of the workers, has been the chief concern. In the United States we lack large practical experience with industrial education for the mass of workers. Of all countries, Germany has had probably the largest and most fruitful experience with such education and has most to teach us. To learn at first hand from German experiences, the author spent the summer of 1911 investigating industrial education in Germany. The cities visited were selected with a view to their importance industrially and include a number of the chief industrial centers in various lines of manufacture. The following cities were visited: The city State of Hamburg; Leipzig, Dresden, Chemnitz, and Plauen in Saxony; Munich in Bavaria; Mannheim in Baden; and Berlin, Magdeburg, Frankfort on Main, Coblenz, Cologne, Dusseldorf, Elberfeld, Barmen, Dortmund, Essen, Duisburg, Crefeld, Munchen-Gladbach, Rheydt, and Aachen, in Prussia. Numerous industrial schools of all grades were visited, a large proportion of which were in operation. Inquiries were made of school directors and teachers, and members of school boards, as to the organization, methods, and results of the schools. The relations of the schools to and their results on industry, and the attitude of industrial employers to them, were especially investigated. In almost every city the chamber of industry was visited and inquiries made of these bodies, which are the best fitted of all to represent the opinions of the masters. In addition, a considerable number of school reports and other printed data were collected, of which one could learn only when on the ground. It may be questioned whether the German experience is likely to be largely useful to us in the United States, on account of our differences, economic, political, and temperamental. In Part II the author notes some of the economic differences. The psychological and political differences are well known. The following appendixes are included: (1) A German Apprentice Contract; and (2) The Wisconsin Apprentice Law of 1911. An index is included. Individual sections contain footnotes. [Best copy available has been provided.]
Monthly Record of Current Educational Publications. Bulletin, 1913, No. 21. Whole Number 531
Author: Department of the Interior, United States Bureau of Education (ED)
Date: 1913-06-00
Type: Historical Materials
Subjects: Publications,Educational History,Teaching Methods,Educational Psychology,Child Psychology,Curriculum,Kindergarten,Elementary Schools,Rural Education,Secondary Education,Teacher Education,Teacher Certification,Higher Education,Educational Administration,Governance,Architecture,School Buildings,Hygiene,Sanitation,Physical Education,Play,Social Development,Child Welfare,Moral Values,Values Education,Religious Education,Vocational Education,Agricultural Education,Home Economics,Medical Education,Womens Education,Disabilities,Special Education,Libraries

This bulletin contains a monthly record of current educational publications received by the Library Division of the Bureau of Education in June, 1913. The publications are organized into three sections: (1) Publications of associations; (2) Bureau of Education: Recent publications; and (3) Books, Pamphlets, Periodical Articles. "Books, Pamphlets, Periodical Articles" covers the following topic areas: (1) Educational history; (2) Present situation; (3) Pedagogics and didactics; (4) Educational psychology, Child Study; (5) Special methods of instruction; (6) Special subjects of curriculum; (7) Kindergarten and primary school; (8) Rural education; (9) Secondary education; (10) Teachers: Training and professional status; (11) Higher education; (12) School administration; (13) School management; (14) School architecture; (15) School sanitation and hygiene; (16) Physical training; (17) Social aspects of education; (18) Child welfare; (19) Moral and religious education; (20) Manual and vocational training; (21) Vocational guidance; (22) Agricultural education; (23) Home economics; (24) Medical education; (25) Education of women; (26) Exceptional children; and (27) Libraries and reading. A directory of the periodicals indexed in this publication appears at the end of the bulletin. [Compiled by the Library Division of the Bureau of Education, under the direction of John D. Wolcott, acting Librarian. Best copy available has been provided.]
Bibliography of Industrial, Vocational, and Trade Education. Bulletin, 1913, No. 22. Whole Number 532
Author: Evans, Henry R.
Date: 1913-00-00
Type: Historical Materials
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Educational History,Annotated Bibliographies,Trade and Industrial Education,Industrial Education,International Education,Educational Principles,Role of Education,Organizations (Groups),Rural Schools,Home Economics Education,Womens Education,Career Guidance,Special Needs Students,Educational Legislation,Educational Policy,Educational Finance,Cooperative Education,Evening Programs,Correspondence Schools,Private Schools,Technology Education,Higher Education,Postsecondary Education,Public Schools,High Schools,Elementary Secondary Education,Adult Education,Apprenticeships,Vocational Education,Business Education,Vocational Education Teachers,Teacher Education,African American Education,Adult Vocational Education,Vocational Schools,Continuation Students

In this country and abroad there is a general and increasing interest in industrial education and in the various forms of vocation and trade schools. Teachers, school boards, civic organizations, manufacturers, trades-unions, city and State officials are working apart and together to formulate some practical program whereby this type of education may be given in the best and most economic way. In many foreign countries, and in several States and cities of this country, marked progress has been made. The literature on the subject has been so abundant and varied that there is need for an annotated list of the more important books, reports, articles, and periodicals that have appeared within the last few years. This bulletin contains such a list. An index is included. [Best copy available has been provided.]
The Georgia Club at the State Normal School, Athens, Georgia, for the Study of Rural Sociology. Bulletin, 1913, No. 23. Whole Number 533
Author: Branson, E. C.
Date: 1913-00-00
Type: Historical Materials
Subjects: Educational History,Rural Sociology,Rural Areas,Clubs,Counties,Rural Schools,Rural Population,Preservice Teacher Education,State Schools,Social Science Research,Relevance (Education),School Community Relationship,Teacher Education Curriculum,Community Needs,Community Surveys,Economics Education,Rural Economics,Program Descriptions,Local Issues,Student Organizations,State Surveys

In all States of the Union having a large rural population, efforts are made to adjust the work of the country schools to the needs of country life. There is a widespread feeling that the schools must become a more important factor in country life than they have been and contribute more toward the solution of its problems. To that end normal schools which prepare teachers for public schools in rural communities are trying to interest their students in social and economic conditions in the country and to show them how to conduct investigations in regard to the facts of these conditions. One of the most successful attempts to do this of which the bureau has any information has been made through the Georgia Club for the Study of Rural Sociology at the State Normal School at Athens, Georgia. The account of this club and its work given in this bulletin contains many valuable suggestions for similar work in other schools and by groups of teachers and individuals in the country. Contents include: (1) History; (2) The home State a proper curriculum study; (3) Economics and sociology in normal school curriculums; (4) The creed of the Georgia Club; (5) What studying Georgia means to the Georgia Club; (6) General State problems--Tables and maps; (7) Skeleton outline of county studies; (8) A specimen county narrative; (9) Club meetings: Club studies and discussions; and (10) County surveys: Their uses and values. (Contains 2 footnotes.) [Best copy available has been provided.]