W. B. Munro, Principles and Methods of Municipal Administration, pp. 356-402;
George F. Swain, How to Study, pp. 1-21;
The Annual Reports of the United States Commissioner of Education, the Bulletins of the United States Bureau of Education, and the Annual Reports of the State Superintendents of Education contain much useful information.
Group Problems
1. The purpose, progress, value, and limitations of vocational education. The old curriculum, its merits and defects. The rise of manual training. Its value. Beginnings of industrial education. Its progress. Its scope. Its place in the school system. Its relation to industry and the attitude of industry toward it. The attitude of organized labor. Limitations on the scope of vocational education. References: P. H. Hanus, Beginnings in Industrial Education, pp. 3-27; David Snedden, Vocational Education, pp. 1-104; Meyer Bloomfield, The School and the Start in Life (United States Bureau of Education, Bulletin, 1914, No. 4, pp. 117-133); S. T. Dutton and David Snedden, The Administration of Public Education in the United States, pp. 404-425; Irving King, Social Aspects of Education, pp. 144-176; A. H. Leake, Industrial Education, its Problems, Methods, and Dangers, pp. 3-39; United States Senate and House Committees on Agriculture, Vocational Education (Report of Hearings, 1912). See also the Proceedings of the National Society for the Promotion of Industrial (Vocational) Education (published annually).
2. How far should the state control the public schools? References: S. T. Dutton and David Snedden, The Administration of Public Education in the United States, pp. 41-72; E. C. Elliott, State School Systems (U. S. Bureau of Education, Bulletin, 1910, No. 2, pp. 31-68); A. C. Perry, Outlines of School Administration, pp. 16-28; J. M. Mathews, Principles of American State Administration, pp. 296-334.
3. The school as a social center. References: Irving King, Education for Social Efficiency, pp. 262-279; C. A. Perry, The Wider Use of the School Plant, pp. 3-16; 335-380; E. J. Ward, The Social Center, pp. 302-314; National Society for the Study of Education, Tenth Yearbook (1913), Part I, pp. 1-69.
Short Studies
1. The social aim of education. Irving King, Education for Social Efficiency, pp. 11-20.
2. The organization and functions of school boards. W. B. Munro, Principles and Methods of Municipal Administration, pp. 359-372.