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MONTHLY RECORD OF CURRENT EDUCATIONAL PUBLICATIONS.

Compiled by the Library Division, Bureau of Education.

CONTENTS.-Educational

biography-Current

educational conditions-Educational theory and practice-Educational psychology; Child study-Educational tests and measurements Special methods of instruction-Special subjects of curriculum—Kindergarten and primary school-Rural education-Secondary education-Normal training— Teachers' salaries and professional status-Higher education-Scientific research-School administration-School management-School architecture-School hygiene and sanitation-Physical training-Social aspects of education-Moral education-Religious education-Manual and vocational training-Agricultural education-Home economicsProfessional education-Civic education-Military training-Education of soldiersEducation of women-Exceptional children-Education extension-Libraries and reading-Bureau of Education: Recent publications-New periodicals.

NOTE.

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 publication, from the secretary of the issuing organization. Many of them are available for consultation in various public and institutional libraries.

Publications intended for inclusion in this record should be sent to the library of the Bureau of Education, Washington, D. C.

1. Gilbert, Allan H. manic philology,

2. Powell, Lyman P.

EDUCATIONAL BIOGRAPHY.

Martin Bucer on education. Journal of English and Ger18:321-45, July 1919.

Charles Cestre, a student of American conditions. American review of reviews, 61:54, January 1920.

Followed by an article by Professor Cestre entitled Our labor situation-a Frenchman's view, p. 55-59.

M. Cestre has been professor of English literature at the University of Bordeaux, and has recently lectured at the Sorbonne and throughout France on American literature and civilization. He has traveled widely through the United States as a student of American conditions, and is preparing a book on the subject.

CURRENT EDUCATIONAL CONDITIONS.

UNITED STATES.

3. Kinnaman, J. O. Whither are we drifting? School and home, 11:13-15, December 1919.

Criticises the public schools. Says bolshevism is rampant in education, no founda. tion is being laid for real education, teachers are poor and unqualified, the children are not taught to think, they are spoiled by their parents, and they lack mental and physical discipline.

4. Knight, Edgar W. Public education in the South. Some inherited ills and some needed reforms. School and society, 11:31-38, January 10, 1920.

Part of an address before the North Carolina teachers' assembly, Raleigh, N. C., November 26, 1919.

5. O'Shea, Michael Vincent. The spirit of American education. Normal instructor and primary plans, 29:20, 74, February 1920.

Aims to "show that recent events have given us good reason to believe that in its main features our educational system is sound and superior to that of any foreign country, and our problem is not so much to reform our courses and methods as to perfect the work which has already been done."

6. Parkinson, William D. Is public education an essential industry? Journal of education, 90: 623-26, December 18, 1919.

Gives instances in which both the public and the teacher himself discredit public education and says that it is small wonder that serious-minded members of the teaching fraternity begin to doubt whether public education really is an essential industry.

FOREIGN COUNTRIES.

7. Bergson, Henri. French ideals in education and the American student. Living age, 303: 775-77, December 27, 1919.

An address to American students, translated from La Vie universitaire.

8. Lenz, Frank B. A glimpse at China's middle schools. Educational review, 59:58-64, January 1920.

Concludes that moral education is particularly to be desired in the schools of China today.

9. Muller, James A. The student movement in China. Nation, 109: 833-35, December 27, 1919.

Describes the student protest against the foreign policy of the Chinese government and the awards of the Paris conference.

EDUCATIONAL THEORY AND PRACTICE.

10. Bode, B. H. Educational aims and scientific method. School and society, 11:38-44, January 10, 1920.

11. Thaler, William H. On education and the new democracy.

review, 59: 12-18, January 1920.

Educational

Says that "the greater vision leads to the idea of the school making all children a part of the state and permitting natural factors to ordain who shall become the leaders of the state and not through the power of class privilege."

EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY; CHILD STUDY.

12. Burt, Cyril. The development of reasoning in school children. Journal of experimental pedagogy (London) 5:121-27, December 5, 1919.

Says that all the elementary mental mechanisms essential to formal reasoning are present before the child leaves the infants' department, 1. e., by the mental age of 7, if not somewhat before.

13. Dunn, Courtenay. The natural history of the child; a book for all sorts and conditions of men, women, and children. London and Edinburgh, Sampson Low, Marston & co., ltd., 1919. 319 p. front. 8°.

14. Merino y Salazar, Teresa. La doctrina del interés en la psicología pedagógica, investigacion original sobre la evolucion de los intereses del niño cubano. Revista de la facultad de letras y ciencias (Universidad de la Habana, Cuba), 29:12-71, July-October 1919.

Thesis for the doctorate in pedagogy, University of Havana, 1917.

15. Weigle, Luther A. The home atmosphere.

January 1920.

Church school, 1:24-26, 45,

This is the third article in a series of studies for parents, teachers and pastors, based on an outline prepared by the International lesson committee and entitled Hints on child training.

Deals particularly with the impressionability of children.

EDUCATIONAL TESTS AND MEASUREMENTS.

16. Ashbaugh, Ernest J. Iowa spelling scale. Iowa City, Iowa, Pub. by the University, 1919. 3 v. 8°. (University of Iowa extension bulletin, nos. 53, 54, 55)

No. 53. For grades II, III, and IV, 20p. No. 54.-For grades IV, V, and VI, 20p. No. 55.-For grades VI, VII, and VIII, 18p.

17. Burt, Cyril. Psychological tests for general intelligence. Journal of education (London) 52: 27-29, January 1920.

Says that mental tests are of little importance without expert interpretation. Teachers are, or ought to be, such experts. Discusses the value of such tests.

18. Cowdery, Karl M. A statistical study of intelligence as a factor in vocational progress. Journal of delinquency, 4: 221-40, November 1919.

Relation of measurable general intelligence to the ability to progress under vocational instruction in various trades and occupations. The subjects are delinquent boys mostly between the ages of 14 and 18, who have been committed to the Whittier state school, Calif.

19. De Voss, James C.

Army methods of classification for schools. Teaching, 4:10-16, October 1919.

Personal observations on the possible uses of army methods of classification in school practice.

20. Frasier, George W.

Educational measurements. American school board

journal, 60: 23-24, January 1920.

Discusses the values of educational tests and measurements from the standpoint of school officers.

21. Humpstone, H. J. The meaning of a Binet score.

13: 18-26, December 15, 1919.

Psychological clinic,

Criticises the uses to which the Binet tests have been put in the American adaptation.

22. Merrill, Maud A. A scale for the individual measurement of reading ability. Journal of educational psychology, 10:389–400, October 1919.

Says that reading speed and comprehension are conditioned to an important extent by the legibility of the face of printing type used. Bibliography: p. 400.

23. Patri, Angelo. Educational measurements. School and home (Ethical culture school, New York City), p. 13-17, Fall 1919.

Address delivered at the opening meeting of the parents and teachers association of the Ethical culture school, New York City.

The failure of educational tests to measure the progress of children.