ANNOUNCEMENTS
FOR THE TEACHER’S LIBRARY
INTRODUCTION TO THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF EDUCATION
By Charles Hubbard Judd, Professor of Education and Director of the School of Education, The University of Chicago
xii + 333 Pages
This book summarizes the scientific methods employed in solving problems of school organization and administration which in recent years have resulted in much economy of time and effort and the elimination of nonessentials. It is the first comprehensive introduction to the scientific study of education. The wealth of concrete, informing material makes it particularly valuable in introductory courses in normal schools and training classes as well as in colleges.
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF HIGH-SCHOOL SUBJECTS
By Charles Hubbard Judd
515 pages
A psychological analysis of the mental processes developed in the student by each subject in the high-school curriculum. On these analyses many problems of value and method depend for their solution. Each discussion is introduced by a summary of the psychological facts relating to it. This book should not be overlooked by anyone interested in educational problems.
METHODS OF TEACHING IN HIGH SCHOOLS
By Samuel Chester Parker, The University of Chicago
xxv + 529 pages, illustrated
A careful study of the principles underlying the actual class work of high-school teachers. The scope and method are indicated by some of the chapter titles: Economy in Classroom Management; Reflective Thinking; Conversational Methods; Laboratory Methods; The Art of Questioning; Measuring the Results of Teaching. For reading and general reference the book will be most helpful to high-school teachers.
TWO BOOKS ON ELEMENTARY EDUCATION
SCHOOL EFFICIENCY
By Henry Eastman Bennett, Professor of Education, College of William and Mary.
The first aim of “School Efficiency” is to be practical and genuinely helpful to teachers. It aims also to set higher ideals in this field than are usually associated with the practical attitude. The author has discussed topics which claim the attention of the teacher on every day of the school year,—school grounds, buildings, lighting, heat and ventilation, health inspection, marking systems and reports, discipline, and many others,—and in discussing them has kept ever uppermost in his mind the average school of average opportunities and the teacher of average ability, which is one of the important reasons why this volume is a real contribution to the teacher’s library. 374 pages, illustrated
HISTORY OF MODERN ELEMENTARY EDUCATION
By Samuel Chester Parker, Professor of Education, The University of Chicago.
This book provides a continuous, connected history of elementary education from the earliest vernacular schools of medieval cities to the schools of the present. The subject is considered under three main heads: social conditions, educational theory, and school practice. The relation of each to historical development is clearly traced.
The author shows in a concrete way how elementary schools keep abreast of changing social conditions such as the growth of vernacular literatures, of cities, of modern science, and of national governments and democracy, tracing the resulting changes in the elementary curriculum. He gives especially full treatment to Rousseau, Pestalozzi, Herbart, Froebel, Parker, and Dewey. 505 pages, illustrated
GOOD BOOKS FOR TEACHERS
EVERYDAY PEDAGOGY
By Lillian I. Lincoln, State Normal School, Farmington, Maine. 310 pages
Definite and practical suggestions from a teacher of wide experience. The book treats each of the regular common-school subjects in a separate chapter. It includes chapters on discipline, conducting the recitation, and similar general topics.
WHAT IS EDUCATION?
By Ernest Carroll Moore, Harvard University. 357 pages
What is Knowledge? The Doctrine of General Discipline, Education as World Building, The Kinds of Education, The Place of Method in Education, and other essays on the underlying philosophy of teaching by an experienced educator.
THE DRAMATIC METHOD OF TEACHING
By Harriet Finlay-Johnson. 199 pages, illustrated
The fascinating story of what the author accomplished as head mistress of a unique school on the Sussex Downs of England. She applied dramatic methods of teaching to every subject in the school curriculum, with surprising results.
THE NORMAL CHILD AND PRIMARY EDUCATION
By Arnold L. Gesell, Yale University, and Beatrice Chandler Gesell. 342 pages, illustrated
A fresh, comprehensive, nontechnical study of the child. Introductory chapters present in a readable way the biological and genetic background, and later chapters make concrete, practical applications of the principles developed.
SOCIAL EDUCATION
By Colin Alexander Scott, Mt. Holyoke College. 300 pages
The social forces at work among pupils and the ways in which these can be utilized for education. Schools like the George Junior Republic and the Dewey School are studied for their suggestive value, but the book covers a much broader field.
EDUCATION AS GROWTH: OR THE CULTURE OF CHARACTER
By L. H. Jones, formerly President of Michigan State Normal College. 275 pages
A detailed discussion of the best ways of developing sound character through education. The method of the book is that of evolution, each chapter treating the spiritual life of the developing child on a higher level.
BOOKS FOR TEACHERS
Allen: Civics and Health
Bloomfield: Readings in Vocational Guidance
Brigham: Geographic Influences in American History
Curtis: Play and Recreation for the Open Country
Davis: Vocational and Moral Guidance
Finlay-Johnson: The Dramatic Method of Teaching
Gesell: The Normal Child and Primary Education
Hall: Aspects of Child Life and Education
Hodge: Nature Study and Life
Johnson: Education by Plays and Games
Johnson: What to do at Recess
Jones: Education as Growth
Judd: Psychology of High-School Subjects
Judd: Scientific Study of Education
Kastman and Köhler: Swedish Song Games
Kern: Among Country Schools
Leavitt: Examples of Industrial Education
Leiper: Language Work in Elementary Schools
Lincoln: Everyday Pedagogy
Moore: Fifty Years of American Education
Moore: What is Education?
Moral Training in the Public Schools
Palmer: Play Life in the First Eight Years
Parker: History of Modern Elementary Education
Parker: Methods of Teaching in High Schools
Phillips: An Elementary Psychology
Prince: Courses of Studies and Methods of Teaching
Read: An Introductory Psychology
Sargent: Fine and Industrial Arts in Elementary Schools
Sargent and Miller: How Children Learn to Draw
Scott: Social Education
Smith: The Teaching of Arithmetic
Tompkins: Philosophy of School Management
Tompkins: Philosophy of Teaching
Williams: Gardens and their Meaning
GINN AND COMPANY Publishers
FOOTNOTES:
1 Report of Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, Superintendent of Schools of the City of Chicago, for the Year Ending June 30, 1915, published as a part of the Sixty-first Annual Report of the Board of Education, p. 25.
2 Special Report of the Boise Public Schools, by Superintendent C. S. Meek, June, 1915, p. 57.
3 Leonard P. Ayres, “School Surveys,” School and Society, Vol. I, No. 17, April 24, 1915, pp. 580-581.
4 Proceedings of the Twenty-first Annual Meeting of the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, Chicago, 1916, pp. 97-121.
5 William A. Schmidt, An Experimental Study in the Psychology of Reading (Supplementary Educational Monograph of the School Review and the Elementary School Journal, Vol. I, No. 2), p. 43.
6 Report of the Minneapolis Survey for Vocational Education, Bulletin No. 21 of the National Society for the Promotion of Industrial Education, 1916.
7 Reprinted in the Report of the School Committee of the City of Taunton, Massachusetts, for the Year Ending December 31, 1915, pp. 68-73.
8 Frank Forest Bunker, “Reorganization of the Public School System,” in Bulletin No. 8, United States Bureau of Education, 1916, pp. 21-23.
9 Ellwood P. Cubberley, “Changing Conceptions of Education,” Riverside Educational Monograph, pp. 27-35. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1909.
10 Report of the Commissioner of Education for 1888-1889, p. 471.
11 Report of the Commissioner of Education for 1915, Vol. I, p. 12.
12 Report of the Commissioner of Education for 1916, Vol. I, p. 24.
13 Report of the Commissioner of Education for 1916, Vol. I, p. 25.
14 Report of the Commissioner of Education for 1915, Vol. I, pp. 12-13.
| Average cost per pupil of maintaining elementary schools for 1914-1915 | $37.58 |
| Average cost per pupil of maintaining high schools for 1914-1915 | $82.36 |
| Average cost per pupil of maintaining Chicago Normal College for 1914-1915 | $228.84 |
Report of the Superintendent of Schools for the Year Ending June 30, 1915, in the Sixty-first Annual Report of the Board of Education of the City of Chicago, p. 196.
16 Report of the Commissioner of Education for 1916, Vol. II, p. 20.
17 Ibid. p. 19.
18 Bulletin No. 126, Table II, United States Bureau of Census, 1913.
19 Quoted in fuller detail on pages 426 et seq. of the “Portland Survey,” by Ellwood P. Cubberley. Published by the World Book Company, 1915.
20 Report of Committee on School Inquiry, p. 61. Published by the city of New York, 1911-1913.
21 Figures taken from the financial survey of Grand Rapids, Michigan, prepared by Dr. H. O. Rugg and published in the survey of that city published by the Board of Education, 1917, and from the survey of St. Louis by the same investigator.
22 The median is that figure above which and below which fall half the cases. It is, therefore, a suitable sample of the whole group. It is a better representative figure than the average.
23 J. F. Bobbitt, “High-School Costs,” in the School Review, Vol. XXIII, No. 8 (1915), p. 526.
24 G. Lee Fleming, Instructional Costs in the First Six Elementary Grades. Master’s Thesis, Department of Education, The University of Chicago, 1916.
25 Bulletin No. 1 of the Public Education Association of Chicago, 1917, pp. 3-5.
26 Report of the Committee on Relation between Boards of Education and Superintendents, in Journal of the National Education Association, Vol. I, No. 9 (May, 1917), pp. 967-968.
27 A Million a Year, pp. v-vi. Monograph No. 1, published by the Board of Education, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1916.
28 Fletcher B. Dressler, “Rural School Houses and Grounds.” Bulletin No. 12, United States Bureau of Education, 1914.
29 Leonard P. Ayres and May Ayres, School Buildings and Equipment, p. 23. Cleveland Education Survey. Published by the Survey Committee of the Cleveland Foundation, 1916.
30 Ibid. p. 35.
31 Report of the School Survey of School District Number One in the City and County of Denver, pp. 134-135. Published by the School Survey Committee, Denver, Colorado, 1916.
32 John Dewey, The School and Society, pp. 47-49. The University of Chicago Press, 1907.
33 Communication by W. H. Smith, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Mississippi. Published as part of the monograph entitled “Consolidation of Rural Schools and Transportation of Pupils at Public Expense,” in Bulletin No. 30, United States Bureau of Education, 1914 (edited by A. C. Monahan), pp. 82-84.
34 Report of the State Superintendent of Public Schools of the State of Maine, for the School Year Ending June 30, 1914, p. 21.
35 John Franklin Bobbitt, “The Elimination of Waste in Education,” in Elementary School Teacher, Vol. XII (1912), pp. 266-267.
36 Special report of the Boise Public Schools (June, 1915), pp. 17-18.
37 F. E. Spaulding, The Newton Public Schools, Annual Report of the School Committee, Newton, Massachusetts, Vol. LXXIV (1913), pp. 18-19.
38 Leonard P. Ayres, A Measuring Scale for Ability in Spelling. The Russell Sage Foundation, 1915.
39 The Work of the Schools. Part II of the Report of the School Survey of Denver, p. 158. Published by the School Survey Committee, Denver, Colorado, 1916.
41 Edwin A. Kirkpatrick, The Use of Money, pp. 1-2. The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1915.
42 Abraham Flexner, A Modern School, pp. 8-9. Published by the General Education Board, New York City, 1916.
43 Paul Shorey, “The Assault on Humanism,” Atlantic Monthly, July, 1917.
44 Vocational Schools for Illinois, pp. 1-2. Published by the Commercial Club of Chicago.
45 A Report on Vocational Training in Chicago and in Other Cities, p. 38. Published by the City Club of Chicago, 1912.
46 Frank M. Leavitt, Examples of Industrial Education, pp. 149-151. Ginn and Company, 1912.
47 L. R. Alderman, School Credit for Home Work, pp. 89-91. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915.
48 L. R. Alderman, School Credit for Home Work, pp. 32-33. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915.
49 H. H. Wheaton, “The United States Bureau of Education and the Immigrant.” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. LXVII, No. 156 (September, 1916), pp. 273-274.
50 The General Education Board: An Account of its Activities, 1902-1914, pp. 58, 61-62. New York City, 1915.
51 Clarence Arthur Perry, Educational Extension, pp. 82-85. Cleveland Education Survey. Published by the Survey Committee of the Cleveland Foundation, 1916.
52 Abraham Flexner, “Parents and Schools.” The Atlantic Monthly (July, 1916), pp. 26-27.
53 William Heard Kilpatrick, The Montessori System Examined, pp. 14-15. Riverside Educational Monograph. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1914.
54 Frank M. McMurry, Report on Educational Aspects of the Public School System of the City of New York, 1911-1912, Part II, p. 265.
55 Report of the President of Yale University, 1908-1909. Published by the University, New Haven, 1909.
56 Samuel Chester Parker, Methods of Teaching in High Schools, pp. 318-319. Ginn and Company, 1915.
57 Lewis M. Terman, The Measurement of Intelligence, pp. 161-163. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916.
58 Bertha M. Stevens, Boys and Girls in Commercial Work, pp. 179-180. Cleveland Education Survey. Published by the Survey Committee of the Cleveland Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, 1916.
59 Bertha M. Stevens, Boys and Girls in Commercial Work, pp. 14-16. Cleveland Education Survey. Published by the Survey Committee of the Cleveland Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, 1916.
60 Measuring the Work of the Public Schools, pp. 131-133. Cleveland Education Survey. Published by the Survey Committee of the Cleveland Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, 1916.
61 Proceedings of the National Education Association for 1915, p. 256. Published by the Secretary of the Association, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1915.
62 John Fiske, The Meaning of Infancy. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1909.
63 Bailey B. Burritt, “Professional Distribution of College and University Graduates,” p. 15. Bulletin No. 19, United States Bureau of Education, 1912.
64 Survey conducted by L. P. Ayres of the Russell Sage Foundation. “The Public Schools of Springfield, Illinois,” pp. 86-88. Published by the Springfield Survey Committee, Springfield, Illinois, 1914.
65 W. C. Bagley, “The Determination of Minimum Essentials in Elementary Geography and History.” Fourteenth Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, Part I, pp. 131, 134-135. The University of Chicago Press, 1915.
66 W. W. Charters and Edith Miller, “A Course of Study in Grammar,” pp. 43-45. Bulletin No. 2, University of Missouri, Vol. XVI (1915).
67 A. Lawrence Lowell, “College Studies and Professional Training.” Educational Review, Vol. XLII (October, 1911), pp. 220, 221, 233.
68 W. A. Jessup and L. D. Coffman. The Macmillan Company, 1916.
69 J. M. Rice, editor of the Forum.
70 Leonard P. Ayres, “Making Education Definite.” Bulletin No. 11, Indiana University, Vol. XIII (October, 1915), pp. 85-86. Published by the Extension Division of Indiana University.
71 E. L. Thorndike, “Handwriting.” Teachers College Record, March, 1910.
72 L. P. Ayres, A Scale for Measuring the Quality of Handwriting of School Children. Russell Sage Foundation, New York.
73 F. N. Freeman, The Teaching of Handwriting. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1914.
74 Measuring the Work of the Public Schools, pp. 75-77. Cleveland Education Survey. Published by the Survey Committee of the Cleveland Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, 1916.
75 Quality on vertical scale, speed on horizontal scale. The four schools referred to in the text are represented in the four diagrams in the upper part of the figure. North Doan is reported in the diagram in the upper left-hand corner. Kentucky is shown in the upper right-hand corner. Memorial is under North Doan. Mt. Pleasant is under Kentucky.
76 William S. Gray, “A Co-operative Study of Reading in Eleven Cities of Northern Illinois.” Elementary School Journal, Vol. XVII, No. 4 (December, 1916), pp. 250-257.
77 David A. Ward, The History of Physics Instruction in the Secondary Schools of the United States. Unpublished thesis for the Master’s degree in the Department of Education of The University of Chicago.
78 E. R. Breslich, “Supervised Study as a Means of providing Supplementary Individual Instruction.” Thirteenth Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, Part I, p. 45. The University of Chicago Press, 1914.
79 F. M. Giles, late principal of the Township High School of De Kalb, Illinois. Thirteenth Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, Part I, pp. 57-58.
80 I. M. Allen, “Experiments in Supervised Study.” School Review, Vol. XXV, No. 6 (June, 1917), pp. 401-404.
81 W. S. Deffenbaugh, “School Administration in the Smaller Cities.” Bulletin No. 44, United States Bureau of Education, 1915, pp. 40-41.
82 Max F. Meyer, “The Administration of College Grades.” School and Society, Vol. II, No. 43 (October, 1915), pp. 577-589.
83 See article by W. A. Bailey, School Review, Vol. XXV (May, 1917), pp. 305-321.
84 Howard R. Knight, Play and Recreation in a Town of 6000 (A Recreation Survey of Ipswich, Massachusetts), pp. 7-8. Russell Sage Foundation, New York City.
85 George E. Johnson, Education through Recreation, pp. 48-50. Cleveland Education Survey. Published by the Survey Committee of the Cleveland Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, 1916.
86 Madison Recreational Survey, pp. 97-99. Prepared by a Special Committee of the Madison Board of Commerce, 1915.
87 George E. Johnson, Education through Recreation, pp. 91-92. Cleveland Education Survey. Published by the Survey Committee of the Cleveland Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, 1916.
88 Sarah Webb Maury and Lena L. Tachau, A Penny Lunch, p. 8. 1915.
89 Louise Stevens Bryant, “School Feeding.” Educational Hygiene (edited by Louis W. Rapeer), chap. xvi, pp. 286-287, 289. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1915.
90 Ibid. p. 285.
91 Dr. E. A. Peterson, “Medical Inspection.” Survey of the St. Louis Public Schools, Vol. VII, Part II, pp. 41-45. Published by the Board of Education, St. Louis, Missouri.
92 Elizabeth Wilson Allison, “The Teacher’s Field in Public Health Work.” Proceedings of the National Education Association, pp. 676-678. Published by the Secretary of the Association, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1915.
93 Charles Hubbard Judd and Samuel Chester Parker, Problems involved in Standardizing State Normal Schools, pp. 7-9. Bulletin No. 12, United States Bureau of Education, 1916.
94 Charles H. Judd, The Training of Teachers in England, Scotland, and Germany, pp. 74-82. Bulletin No. 35, United States Bureau of Education, 1914.
95 Charles Hughes Johnston, “Progress of Teacher Training.” Report of the Commissioner of Education, 1913, Vol. I, chap. xxiv, p. 520.
96 Proceedings of the Twenty-first Annual Meeting of the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, 1916, p. 94.
97 “Revised Rules governing High-School Certification,” pp. 3-5. Bulletin No. 5, California State Board of Education, 1915.
Transcriber’s Notes
Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected. Variations in hyphenation have been standardised but all other spelling and punctuation remains unchanged.