123m CONTENTS.-Proceedings of associations-Educational history and biography-Current educational conditions-Educational theory and practice-Educational psychology; Child study-Educational tests and measurements-Special methods of instruction-Special sub- jects of curriculum-Kindergarten and primary school-Rural education-Secondary edu- cation-Teachers' salaries and professional status-Higher education-School adminis- tration-School management-School hygiene and sanitation-Sex hygiene Physical training-Play and recreation-Social aspects of education--Child welfare-Moral and religious education-Manual and vocational training-Vocational guidance-Home economics- Professional education-Civic education - Americanization — Education of soldiers Education of women-Negro education - Education of deaf- Exceptional children-Education extension-Libraries and reading-Bureau of education: Recent The record comprises a general survey in bibliographic form of current educational literature, domestic and foreign, received during the monthly period preceding the date of publication of each issue. This office can not supply the publications listed in this bulletin, other than those expressly designated as publications of the Bureau of Education. Books, pamphlets, and periodicals here mentioned may ordinarily be obtained from their respective publishers, either directly or through a dealer, or, in the case of an association publi- cation, from the secretary of the issuing organization. Many of them are available for consultation in various public and institutional Publications intended for inclusion in this record should be sent to 1. Associated Harvard clubs. Report of the proceedings at the twenty-second annual meeting, Washington, D. C., April 30-May 1, 1920. 45 p. 8°. (Supplement to the Harvard alumni bulletin, vol. 23, no. 14, January 6, 1921) 2. Louisiana. Conference of state and parish school officials. Notes on the proceedings of conference held in New Orleans, La., December 16-18, 1920. Baton Rouge, State department of education, 1920. 11 p. 8°. A statement of some of the important facts which were disclosed in the dis- 3. Pennsylvania. University. Schoolmen's week. Seventh annual proceed- ings, April 8-10, 1920. Philadelphia, Pa., Pub. by the University, 1920. Contains: 1. R. M. Haig: Available sources of additional support for Penn- sylvania schools, p. 20-29. 2. W. B. Owen: How to organize a state education association of a democratic basis, p. 37-41. 3. T. E. Finegan: The future of education in Pennsylvania, p. 44-56. 4. J. W. Sweeney: Transportation to the rural consolidated school, p. 59-62. 5. L. J. Russell: Tentative standards for rural courses of study, p. 63–66. 6. E. M. Rapp: Suggestive standards and specifications of the consolidated plant, p. 66-70. 7. L. A. King: Preparation and certification of rural teachers--the situation in Pennsylvania, p. 78–93. 422085 NOV 2088 U OF M BINDER & Carter Alexander: The county training schools of Wisconsin, p. 93-98. 9. Mabel EDUCATIONAL HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY. 4. Aurner, Clarence Ray. History of education in Iowa. Vol. 5. Iowa City, State historical society of Iowa, 1920. x, 371 p. 8°. This volume includes brief accounts of the history of five types of state educational or semieducational institutions in Iowa: the College for the blind, the School for the deaf, the Soldiers' orphans' home, the Reform schools, and the Institution for the feeble-minded. 5. Cajori, Florian. Greek philosophers on the disciplinary value of mathematics. Mathematics teacher, 13: 57-62, December 1920. 6. India. Bureau of education. ... Selections from educational records. Part I. 1781-1839. Calcutta, Superintendent government printing, 1920. 225 p. plates. 4°. 7. Powers, Samuel Ralph. A history of the teaching of chemistry in the secondary schools of the United States previous to 1850. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota, 1920. 68 p. 8°. (Research publications of the University of Minnesota. Current problems, no. 13) Bibliography: p. 53-61. 8. Wells, Herbert G. The outline of history; being a plain history of life and mankind. Written with the advice and editorial help of Ernest Baker, Sir H. H. Johnston, Sir E. Ray Lankester, and Prof. Gilbert Murray, and illustrated by J. F. Horrabin. New York, The Macmillan company, 1920. 2 v. illus., maps. 8°. Mr. Wells' Outline contains much material on the development of human culture and of education from the earliest times to the present. His announced purpose is to make plain in his history that "human progress is largely mental progress a clearing and an enlargement of ideas." 9. Winston, George Tayloe. A builder of the new South; being the story of the life work of Daniel Augustus Tompkins. Garden City, New York, Doubleday, Page & company, 1920. x, 403 p. front. (port.) 8°. Mr. Tompkins (1851-1914) is known as the "father of the cotton seed oil industry," the man who turned a waste product into a national resource. Chapters 11 and 12 of the biography deal with his work as a promoter of industrial and technical education in the South, and as a builder of textile schools. 10. Wright, Thomas Goddard. Literary culture in early New England, 1620Edited by his wife. New Haven, Yale university press, 1920. 322 p. 8°. 1730. Attempts to determine the culture of the people of early New England and to study the relation between their culture and the literature which they produced. In carrying out the plan of the book, the writer has made a study of the education of the New Englanders, their libraries, their ability to obtain books, their use and appreciation of books, their relations with political and literary life in England, and their literature. CURRENT EDUCATIONAL CONDITIONS. GENERAL AND UNITED STATES. 11. Aikin, Wilford M. International relations in education. School and society, 13: 61-67, January 15, 1921. The possibilities of secondary education in the field of international relations. 12. Bagley, William C. Are the older "school virtues" obsolescent? Educational review, 61: 6-10, January 1921. A plea for the older school virtues, especially that of thoroughness, which the writer says has been relegated to the background by the emphasis placed on the ideal of initiative. 13. Claxton, Philander P. Don't you care whether school keeps or not? Independent, 105: 84-85, January 22, 1921. Discusses shortage of teachers; expenditures for education, etc. 14. Dolch, Edward William, jr. The education of the community. Educational administration and supervision, 6: 512-16, December 1920. Suggests ways in which the superintendent can educate the community to fuller understanding and support of the public schools. 15. Duggan, Stephen P. Schools of today in the old world and the new. American education, 24: 156-60, December 1920. Address delivered at the University convocation, Albany, October 7, 1920. The educational reforms prompted by the war both in Europe and America. 16. Mims, Edwin. The new challenge to teachers of America. High school journal, 3: 227-31, December 1920. Address before the North Carolina teachers' assembly, Asheville, November 25, 1920. 17. Reynolds, Ernest Shaw. Democracy in education. American teacher, 9: 178-81, November 1920. Also in School and society, 13: 24-27, January 1, 1921. A report made at the meeting of the North Dakota state teachers' association at Grand Forks, North Dakota, before the section of higher and professional education. 18. Richardson, Jacob W. Educational ideals and Americanism. Harvard graduates' magazine, 29: 177-82, December 1920. 19. Smith, W. C. The community and the teacher. Training school quarterly, 2: 1-8, October, November, December 1920. Address delivered before the North Carolina parent-teacher association. What the community entrusts to its teachers, what it expects and requires of them, and what it owes them. 20. Southington, Conn. School board. Annual report ington, Conn., 1920] 69 p. 12o. illus. 1920. [South Part 1 deals with a health survey of the schools, part 2 is the report of the superintendent, containing information concerning the use of educational tests in the schools, part 3 gives the report of the finance committee. |