QUESTIONS ON THE REQUIRED READINGS
1. Discuss briefly the progress made in education since the Civil War. (Cubberley, pages 38-42.)
2. Name an important defect of our educational system as it existed in the eighties. (Perry, page 3.)
3. Discuss the development of the high school. (Guitteau, pages 174- 175.)
4. To what extent does the Federal government aid State education? (Guitteau, page 176.)
5. Compare briefly the four types of school administration. (Guitteau pages 177-180.)
6. What are the chief sources of school revenues? (Guitteau, pages 182-183.)
7. What has been the effect of immigration upon our educational system? (Cubberley, pages 14-15.)
8. What is the function of the vacation school? (Perry, pages 6-7.)
9. What is meant by the problem of leisure time? (Cubberley, page 20.)
10. Outline briefly the present tendencies in education. (Cubberley, pages 49-69-)
11. Outline the principal factors in study. (McMurry, pages 15-23.)
TOPICS FOR INVERSTGATION AND REPORT
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1. Trace the development of public school education in your state.
2. Classify the types of schools in your state.
3. Draw up a list of the more important provisions in your state constitution regarding education.
4. Sources of school revenues in your community.
5. State supervision of the public schools in your commonwealth.
6. Influence of the Smith-Hughes act upon education in your state.
7. Use of the school as a social center in your community.
8. The meaning of education. (Butler, The Meaning of Education;
Henderson, What is it to be Educated? Hadley, The Education of the
American Citizen; Baldwin, The Relation of Education to
Citizenship.)
9. The beginnings of American education. (Cubberley, Public Education in the United States, chapter ii.)
10. The reorganization of elementary education. (Cubberley, Public Education in the United States, chapter x.)
11. Education through play. (Curtis, Education through Play.)
12. The use of leisure time. (Annals, vol. lxvii, pages 115-122.)
13. Wider use of the school plant. (Cubberley, Public Education in the United States, chapter xiii; Annals, vol. lxvii, pages 170-202. Perry, Wider Use of the School Plant.)
14. The relation of the school to the community. (Dewey, Schools of To-morrow, chapter vii.)
15. Physical education. (Sargent, Physical Education.)
16. The education of Helen Keller. (Keller, The Story of My Life. See also an encyclopedia.)
17. The education of the crippled child. (Hall and Buck, Handicrafts for the Handicapped.)
18. Education for efficiency. (Eliot, Education for Efficiency; Davenport, Education for Efficiency.)
19. Vocational education. (Taylor, A Handbook of Vocational Guidance; Bloomfield, The Vocational Guidance of Youth; Leake, Industrial Education, Its Problems, Methods and Danger.)
20. Choosing a vocation. (Parsons, Choosing a Vocation.)
21. The United States Bureau of Education and the immigrant; (Annals, vol. lxvii, pages 273-283.)
22. Education and social progress. (Ellwood, Sociology and Modern Social Problems, chapter xvi.)
FOR CLASSROOM DISCUSSION
23. Do grammar school graduates who fail to enter high school stop their education at this point because of poverty, because of the attraction of industry, or because of dissatisfaction with school?
24. The question of free text books.
25. The question of uniform text books throughout your state.
26. At what point in the school curriculum should vocational education be begun?
27 How are ancient languages, ancient history and the fine arts helpful in daily life?
28. The question of a more intensive use of your school building as a social center.