Index
Academic courses in high schools, 7
Academy, American, 27
Accounting, school, 61
Administration, studies of, 208
training for, 319
Administrative problems, study of, 303
Adolescence, 268
early, 190
later, 194
Adults, continuation classes for, 147
and the curriculum, 200
After-school classes, 145
Age limits of compulsory education, 42
Agricultural high schools, 134
Alderman, L. R., 144
Algebra, history of, 115
Allen, I. M., 110, 238
Allison, Elizabeth W., 285
American Academy of Political and Social Science, 155
American schools, 14, 26
of 1850, 33
Ames, E. S., 196
Appendix, 321
Arabic numerals, 116
Arithmetic, 117
nonpromotions in, 103
studies of, 210
Associations of parents and teachers, 152
Athletics, 146
Attendance, 35, 41
Attention, observation of, 324
Auditoriums, school, 90
Austin, Texas, 38
Authority in school system, 66
Ayres, L. P., 5, 45, 82, 106, 202, 215, 216, 288, 307
Ayres, May, 82
Bagley, W. C., 204, 211, 251, 253
Bailey, W. A., 264
Batavia system, 110
Binet-Simon tests, 172
Board of education, 66, 67
Bobbitt, J. F., iv, 56, 101, 126
Boise, Idaho, 104
Books, free, 60
Boston, Massachusetts, 95
Boston Latin School, 27
Boys, special commercial training for, 177
Breslich, E. R., 235
Bright pupils, 174
British Royal Commission on the Feeble-minded, Report of, 170
Brooks, Charles, 22
Brown, E. E., 31
Bryant, Louise S., 282
Buildings, school, 74, 78
Bunker, F. F., 22, 24, 31
Bureau of Census, 51
Bureau of Education, 62
Burritt, B. B., 200
Business administration of schools, 68
California State Board of Education, 317
Cameron, E. H., iv
Caste and schools, 17
Centralization, of school control, 64
of school organization, 291
Charters, W. W., 206, 241
Chicago, Illinois, 46, 50, 64
Child labor, 40
Childhood, 185
City Club of Chicago, 133
Civics, 139
Clark, E., 62
Class, organization of, 96
Class instruction, 110
Class period, 256
Classes, sizes of and costs, 58
Classical curriculum, 114
Classical program, 129
Classroom management, 242
Classroom observation, 321
Clerks, training of, 177
Cleveland, 102, 181, 217
Clubs, corn, 149
Coffman, L. D., 208, 320
College courses, as preparatory, 207
once professional, 114
for teachers, 315
Colonial education, 122
Colorado, 6
Comenius, 300
Commercial Club of Chicago, 132
Commercial courses, 177
in high schools, 132, 133
in private schools, 132, 133
Commissioner of Education, 25
reports of, 37, 38, 41, 48, 307
Committee of Ten, 126
Community, conservatism of, 2
and control of schools, 63
lessons in, 139
studies of, 292
Community centers, 150
Comparative method, 14
Comparison, method of, 221, 304
Compulsory education, 30
Compulsory legislation, 37
Concentration, 158
Connecticut school law, 16
Conservatism in community, 2
Consolidation of schools, 92
Contagion in schools, 283
Continuation classes, 147
Continuation training of teachers, 318
Coöperative recitation, 240
Corporation schools, 135
Correlation, observation of, 326
Correspondence schools, 153
Costs, and class instruction, 97
and efficiency, 52
school, 46
of school construction, 89
Course of study, changes in, 2
Courses of study, and costs, 56
for girls, 180
Courtis, S. A., 228, 295
Cousin, 23
Credits, for courses, 261
for home activities, 142
Cubberley, E. P., 34, 37, 52, 62, 77
Current references and the curriculum, 203
Curricula of schools, 18
Curriculum (see also Course of study), 113, 197
conservatism regarding, 2
and costs, 49, 56
for girls, 180
grading of subjects in, 99
and individual differences, 17
and industry, 125
principles of, 156
readjustments in, 105
revision of, 132
and school buildings, 90
and school equipment, 88
Deffenbaugh, W. S., 255
Democracy, and individual differences, 182
and school management, 291
Demonstrations as means of education, 150
Denver survey, 85, 107
Department of Superintendence, 70, 182
Departmentalization of grades, 91
Desks, 87, 88
Detroit, Michigan, 72
Device, 229
Dewey, John, 13, 88
Differentiated curricula, 182
Discipline, 157
classroom, 242, 249
impersonal, 252
observation of, 322
District control of schools, 64, 71
Dressler, F. B., 80
Drill, 240
Dual school system, 131
Earhart, L. B., 241
Economy, demand for, 52
Education, of common people, 32
according to nature, 158
and industry, 40
Educational psychology, 301
Efficiency and costs, 52
Efficiency experts, 295
Elementary-education expenditures, 47, 48, 55, 58
Elimination from school, 121
English secondary schools, 29
Entertainment, 150
Errors in oral reading, 225
Euclid, 116
European schools, 14, 17
Examinations, 240
English, 29
Exceptional pupils, 174
Excursions, field, 239
Exercises and readings, 12, 30, 45, 62, 76, 95, 111, 125, 139, 154, 168, 182, 195, 210, 228, 241, 252, 265, 278, 287, 297, 306, 320
Experimental method, 8, 302
Experiments in education, 302
Extension of education, 141
Eye movements in reading, 9
Failures, and classification of pupils, 102
in high school, 107
Fairy tales, 188
Farrington, F. E., 31, 140
Fatigue, 256
and lighting, 85
and play, 269
Feeble-mindedness, 170
Figures, 6, 8, 9, 18, 50, 59, 79, 80, 81, 83, 84, 103, 133, 181, 218, 223, 263
Financial support of schools, 36
Fiscal problem, 44
Fiske, John, 184, 306
Fleming, G. L., 57
Flexner, Abraham, 129, 153
Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, 100
Food and education, 281
Foreign languages, teaching of, 166
Formal training, 162
Free education, 28
Freedom, doctrine of, 158
Freeman, F. N., iv, 216, 302, 306
Galton, Francis, 183
Gardening, school, 146, 239
Gary plan, 90, 100
General courses, 138
General education, 114, 127
General Education Board, 149
General training, 162
Geometry, history of, 115
German schools, 22, 29
German system of training teachers, 312
Giles, F. M., 236
Girls, education of, 28, 175
new courses for, 180
special training of, for vocations, 177
trade training for, 136
Grade system, 96
Grading pupils, 261, 322
Grading systems, 100
Grammar, 204
Grammar school, 27
Grand Rapids, 223
Grand Rapids survey, 55
Gray, W. S., iv, 226
Greek and formal discipline, 164
Greeley, Colorado, 141
Greeley, Horace, 280
Groos, K., 278
Gulick, L. H., 288
Gymnasium, 19, 25
Hadley, A. T., 164
Hall, G. S., 196, 306
Handwriting, 215
Harvard, 114, 199, 207, 262
Health, 279
Health department, 283
Heating, 86
Heck, W. H., 169
Herbart, 301
Hibbing, Minnesota, 59
High schools (see also Secondary schools), 27
agricultural, 134
classification of pupils in, 105
commercial courses in, 132
costs of, 55
curricula of, 5
failures in subjects in, 107
laboratory methods in, 233
High-school building, 82
Higher education, 44
Higher schools and the curriculum, 113
Historical method, 14
History of education, iii, 300
Holmes, W. H., 112
Home, education in the, 186
Home activities and school credit, 142
Home credits, 143
Home feeding, 280
Hopkins Grammar School, 27
Household arts, 179
Hygiene, 85
teaching of, 285
Idiots, 170
Illinois, 6
Illinois State Teachers Association, 222
Imbeciles, 170
Imitation and primary grades, 187
Immigrants, training of, 147
Impersonal discipline, 252
Impersonal standards, 219
Indiana, 6
Individual differences, 160, 170
and instruction, 104
from training, 180
Individual instruction, 110
Individualism, 194
period of, 189
Industrial continuation classes, 147
Industrial demands and education, 11
Industrial education, 123, 131
demand for, 119
Industry and education, 40
Infancy, 184
Instincts and play, 268
Instruction, in classes, 110
and classification, 105
and costs, 49, 56
and grouping, 98
in health, 285
in play, 273
state supervision of, 43
Intelligence, low grades of, 170
tests of, 172
Interest, 158
Intermediate grades, 189
Intermediate school, 193
Iowa, 6
Irnerius, 113
James, William, 306
Jessup, W. A., 208
Johnson, G. E., 273, 277
Johnston, C. H., 316
Jordan, David Starr, 232
Junior high school, 121, 193
Kansas, 6, 7
Kansas City, Kansas, 264
Kansas City, Missouri, 204
Kilpatrick, W. H., 160
Kindergarten, 185
Kirkpatrick, E. A., 119, 196
Knight, H. R., 271
Koos, L. V., 126
Laboratory method, 232
Laboratory methods and science of education, 302
Laboratory-class period, 260
Laggards. See Retardation
Lancastrian system, 35
Land grants, 35
Language, 186
Latin school, 27
Leavitt, F. M., 137
Lecture method, 239
Legal requirements for secondary-school teachers, 317
Liggett School, 295
Lighting in school buildings, 78, 85
Locke, John, 300
Lowell, A. L., 207
Luncheons, school, 280
MacAndrew, W., 77
McFarland, E. G., 143
McMurry, C. A., 169, 241
McMurry, F. M., 163
Madison, Wisconsin, 274
Maine, 99
Malnutrition, 281
Management of school system, 67
Manhattan Trade School, 136
Mann, Horace, 22, 36
Marks, 245
systems of, 261
Massachusetts, 22, 37
Mathematics in high school, 115
Maturity of pupils, 166
Maury, Sarah W., 280
Measurement of school results, 73, 212, 294
Mechanical aspects of school work, 227
Meek, C. S., 2
Method, 229
experiments in, 239
Methods, courses in, iii, 300
of study, 235
Meyer, M. F., 263
Michigan, 6, 22
Miller, Edith, 206
Minneapolis, 74, 119
Minneapolis survey, 11
Minnesota, 6, 7
Missouri, 6
Mistakes of pupils, study of, 204
Monahan, A. C., 95
Money, training in use of, 118
Monroe, Paul, 265
Monroe, W. S., 31
Montana, 6
Montessori, 159
Morehouse, F. M., 253
Morons, 171
Motor processes, observation of, 325
National Association of Directors of Educational Research, 77
National life, lessons in, 139
National Playground Association, 278
National Society for the Promotion of Industrial Education, 11, 293
National Society for the Study of Education, 126, 140, 211
Natural behavior, 267
Natural education, 158
and play, 268
Nebraska, 6
Neef, Joseph, 231
New England, 27
New York City, 50, 53
Normal schools, 308
Norsworthy, N., 241
North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, 5, 126, 316
North Dakota, 6
Object teaching, 231
Observation, classroom, 321
Ohio, 6, 7
Oklahoma, 6
One-room school, 97
Open-air rooms, 279
Opinion versus measurement, 213
Oral instruction in European schools, 15
Oral reading, 9, 222
Parents’ associations, 152
Parker, S. C, iv, 31, 166, 241, 311
Part-time courses, 134
Pathological cases, treatment of, in schools, 279
Pathological conditions, 258
Period of class, 256
Periodicity, in mental development, 184
and play, 267
Perry, Arthur Cecil, 253
Perry, Clarence Arthur, 150, 155
Personal standards, 219
Pestalozzi, 231, 300
Peterson, E. A., 283
Physical conditions of classrooms, 322
Physical education, 270
Pierce, J. D., 22
Plato, 300
Play, 266
Population and educational costs, 48
Portland survey, 52
Practical applications of academic courses, 138
Preparation, of pupils, 323
of teachers, 323
Primary grades, 187
Principal, school, 289
Professional courses, preparation for, 207
Professional education, 113, 122
Professional training, 199
of teachers, 308
Program, daily, 254
Promotion, 102, 104, 109
Propaganda, educational, 148
Prussian schools, 22
Psychological methods, 302
Psychology, iii, 301
Public Education Association of Chicago, 67
Public expenditures and school costs, 51
Public opinion and reading, 16
Punishments, 247
Pupil’s point of view, 1
Pupils, grading of, 97
unruly, 251
Puritans and play, 266
Quality of handwriting, 217
Question and answer method, 234
Questions, observation of, 325
Quintilian, 300
Rapeer, L. W., 282
Rate, of handwriting, 217
of oral reading, 225
Reading, 8, 188
in American schools, 15
individual differences in, 180
nonpromotions and, 103
oral, 222
rate of, 180
Reading school, colonial, 16, 123
Readings, exercises and, 12, 30, 45, 62, 76, 95, 111, 125, 139, 154, 168, 182, 195, 210, 228, 241, 252, 265, 278, 287, 297, 306, 320
Recitation, 14
attention during, 324
coöperative, 240
Records, and scientific studies, 304
and standardization, 222
Recreation, 269
Religious teaching, 29
Report on classroom observations, 321
Report lesson, 239
Retardation, 4, 302
Reviews in seventh and eighth grades, 193
Rewards, 247
Rice, J. M., 215
Roman, F. W., 140
Roman numerals and multiplication, 116
Rousseau, Jean Jacques, 13, 158, 300
Routine, organization of, 245
Rudimentary curriculum, 25
Rugg, H. O., iv, 55, 62, 211, 307
Rural school buildings, 80
Salaries, teachers’, 60
Sanitation and school buildings, 78
Scales, 215, 294
Schmidt, W. A., 10
School credits for home activities, 142
School day, length of, 254
School discipline, 249
School finance, 89
School program and play, 276
School Report of 1801, 20
School-city, 250
Science of education, 299
definition of, 305
subdivisions of, 304
and teachers, 320
Scientific methods, 14
applied to marks, 262
demand for, 3
for revising the curriculum, 200
and standardization, 228
of studying the curriculum, 197
and supervision, 44, 72, 296
Scientific supervision, 289
Secondary schools (see also High schools), 17, 192
teachers in, 311
Secular schools, 29
Sense experiences and primary education, 187
Seventh grade, reorganization of, 182
Shearman, F. W., 24
Sheldon, 231
Shopwork, 240
Shorey, Paul, 130
Silent reading, 8
“Six-three-and-three” plan, 121
Smith, W. H., 95
Social arts, period of learning, 188
Social consciousness, 190
Social control, types of, 244
Social standards, 220
South Carolina, 41
South Dakota, 6, 7
Space study, 117
Spaulding, F. E., 105
Special classes, 105, 175
Special courses for defectives, 172
Specialization, 194
Specialized education, 113, 127
Speed of handwriting, 217
Spelling tests, 201
Spencer, Herbert, 13, 253, 306
Springfield, Illinois, survey, 202
Standardization of results, 294
Standardizing associations, 316
Standards, based on opinion, 213
objective, 214
State control, 33
State and school finance, 54
State supervision of education, 42
Statistical studies, 301
Stevens, Bertha M., 177
St. Louis, 106, 223
St. Louis survey, 55
Strayer, G. D., 95, 241
Study, attention during, 325
Study lesson, 239
Subject-matter versus method, 230
Summaries, 125, 167
Superintendent of schools, 66, 69
Supernormal child, 174
Supervised study, 111, 235, 237
Supervision, 42, 63
of courses, 210
of health, 278
scientific, 289
Supplies, costs of, 60
Survey, industrial, 11
of recreations, 270
System, the school, 30
Tables, 48, 51, 55, 57, 58, 107
Tachau, Lena L., 280
Taunton, Massachusetts, school report, 20
Taxation, general, for schools, 36
Teachers, continuation courses for, 318
preparation of, 323
relation of, to community, 63
and the science of education, 320
secondary-school, 311
selection and management of, 293
training of, 308
Technical courses in high schools, 7
Terman, L. M., 95, 172
Tests, 294
of adults, 201
of general intelligence, 172
of methods, 240
of school products, 72, 212
Texas, compulsory education in, 37, 38
Textbooks in American schools, 14
Thorndike, E. L., 183, 216, 301, 307
Trade education, 11
Trade schools, 135
Trade training for girls, 136
Training of teachers, 308
Transfer of training, 165
Ungraded class, 101
Units, high-school, 7
University of Alexandria, 116
University of Cincinnati, 134
University of Missouri, 263
Unruly pupils, 251
Vacation classes, 145
Ventilation, 86
Vernacular, 18, 25
Vocational education, 122, 131
Volksschule, 17, 18, 19, 25
Vorschule, 19
Ward, D. A., 233
Washington, Booker, 169
Wealth and educational expenditures, 53
Wheaton, H. H., 147
Wider use of school plant, 141
Wirt, W. A., 90
Wisconsin, 6
Wood, T. D., 288
Woolman, Mary S., 136
Wyoming, 6
Young, Ella Flagg, 2