MONTHLY RECORD OF CURRENT EDUCATIONAL PUBLICATIONS. INTRODUCTORY NOTES. Some especially significant books listed during the past month are the following: Drever, Greek education; Parker, Textbook in the history of modern elementary education; Watson, Vives and the renascence education of women; Andrews, Introduction to study of adolescent education; Rice, Scientific management in education; Rusk, Introduction to experimental education; Binet and Simon, Method of measuring the development of the intelligence of young children, translated by Clara H. Town; Carney, Country life and the country school; Parkin, Rhodes scholarships; Baldwin, Relations of education to citizenship; Whitehouse, Problems of boy life; Cope, Efficiency in the Sunday school; Herder's Lexikon der pädagogik, Band 1. Among the periodical articles deserving attention are Kovalevsky on The Duma and public instruction; Snedden, Training of high-school teachers; Maxwell, My ideals as superintendent; and Cooley, Need for vocational schools. Books, pamphlets, etc., intended for inclusion in this record should be sent to the library of the Bureau of Education, Washington, D. C. PUBLICATIONS OF ASSOCIATIONS. 1. Conference on the conservation of school children. Conservation of school children. Being the papers and discussions of a conference at Lehigh university, April 3 and 4, 1912, under the auspices of the American academy of medicine, together with several papers (not presented to the Conference) prepared for this volume. Easton, Pa., Printed for the American academy of medicine, 1912. 293 p. 8°. (Reprinted from the Bulletin of the American academy of medicine.) Contains: 1. A. W. Edson: How far shall the public school system care for the feeble-minded? p. 28-35. 2. J. H. Van Sickle: How far shall the public school system care for the feeble-minded? p. 36-40. 3. E. B. McCready: How far shall the public school system care for the feeble-minded? p. 41-52. 4. O. R. Lovejoy: Child labor vs. the conservation of school children, p. 63-72. 5. Percy Hughes: Teaching hygiene: what should be taught? From the teacher's viewpoint, p. 79-91. 6. W. S. Steele: Teaching of hygiene-methods in vogue, p. 92-98. 7. Louis Nusbaum, How should hygiene be taught? p. 99-110. 8. T. D. Wood: Education for better parenthood, p. 111-20. 9. Helen C. Putnam: Education for parenthood, p. 121-31. 10. J. F. Edwards: Medical inspection of schools from the point of view of the health officer, p. 138-47. 11. T. A. Storey: Medical inspection of schools from the standpoint of the educator, p. 148-57. 12. I. S. Wile: The relative physical advantages of school lunches in elementary and secondary schools, p. 174-83. 13. L. T. Royster: The subnormal school child, p. 194–200. 14. W. S. Hall: The teaching of social ethics, and its relation to the conservation of the child, p. 201-15. 15. Mary E. Bates: The Colorado method for the examination and care of public school children, p. 216–37. 16. E. B. Hoag: The teacher's relation to health supervision in schools, p. 241-48. 17. Frank Allport: The school nurse, p. 249-54. 18. T. W. Grayson: Open-air schools, p. 255-60. 19. E. W. Goodenough: Medical inspection of schools, p. 261-67. 20. J. E. Tuckerman: Management, maintepance and efficiency of the school for cripples in Cleveland, p. 275–78. 70619-13 3 265004 |