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