CONTENTS. . . . . . . Agriculture, Place of in Higher Education. L. H. Bailey 249 175 406, 480, 550, 624, 690 21 472 63, 138, 206, 267, 349, 415, 490, 562, 634, 701 244 335 562 443 529 302 567 578 585 289 466 444 244 456 449 169 47 499 211 55, 126, 202, 259, 341, 406, 480, 560, 624, 690 397 512 160 639 11 82 536 884 131 32 . . Examination Questions. Maud E. Kingsley:- The Sketch Book 688 Exceptional Children, Instruction of. Andrew W. Edson 60, 133, 204, 264, 347, 412, 487, 559, 631 French Literary Anniversaries of 1911. Mattie Wilma Stubbs Geography, Where lay the Emphasis in Teaching ? R. H. Whitbeck 108 German Schools, Religious Problem in. Arley B. Show Girls, Vocational Training for. Idabelle McGlauflin Habit Formation, The Importance of. 0. J.Schuster Harris, William T. Professor T. Treudly High School Course in Biology. Arthur S. Dewing High School Course in English. President Charles W. Eliot High School, How Serve Community. Charles F. Harper 355 103 High School Pupil, The. Harry Preble Swett High Schools, Natural Science in. Frank P. Whitney High School Students' Organizations. David E. Cloyd High School Teachers, Certification of. David Snedden History, Outlook in Teaching. Charles Welsh Home and School. Superintendent J. M. Greenwood Hygiene, School, Physiological Aspects of. George V. N. Dearborn Individual Student, How to Reach. J. E. Hickman Industrial Education. James Parton Haney Interest, Some Suggestions Concerning. Frank D. Blodgett Japanese Secondary Education. Sekiji Nishiyama Lengthening Days, The. (Poem) Julia H. May Literary Excellence, the Standard of. Arthur W. Spencer Manual Training, Course of Study in. Ernest B. Kent Moral Training of Private-School Boys. Charles K. Taylor National Education Association Notes Negroes, A great National Resource. Frank P. Chisholm Ode, an. (Poem) William A. McKeever Oral Composition. Emma M. Bolenius .72, 140, 210, 278, 354, 422, 498, 566, 638, 710 Private-School Boys, Moral Training of. Charles K. Taylor Psalm of Life in Latin Verse. (Poem) B. F. Harding Public Speaking. Oliver Van Wagnen Religious Freedom of the Schools. Mary H. Leonard Religious Problem in German Schools. Arley B. Show Schools, The Common. M. A. Cassidy Schools, What they Need. Randal J. Condon Science, Natural, in our American High Schools. Frank P. Whitney Secondary School Curriculum, A. B. F. Harding Speaking in Public. Oliver Van Wagnen • Stagecraft, College. Frank R. Arnold State Universities, Lessons of. Elmer E. Broome Student Organizations in City High Schools. David E. Cloyd Sunday School Curriculum. William C. Ruediger Tuacher's Attitude toward his Profession. Edwin C. Browne Teacher, Higher Recognition for the. Walter E. Ranger Teaching, Choosing it as a Profession. W. H. P. Faunce Thread, the Rotten. (Poem) Helen Cary Chadwick Vocational Training for Girls. Idabelle McGlauflin Vocational Training in Elementary Schools. Gustaf Larsson . Devoted to the Science, Art, Philosophy and Literature of Education VOL. XXXI SEPTEMBER, 1910 No. 1 Instruction of Exceptional Children in the New York City Public Schools ANDREW W. EDSON, ASSOCIATE CITY SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS N all probability the most striking phase of modern education is the effort to educate and train children who are a little out of step with the masses. The problems to be worked out in the administration of the public school system in every large city are especially perplexing in New York City, owing to the rapidity of growth of the city, the congestion of population in certain quarters, and the many nationalities to be educated. In considering these problems, certain facts have had to be accepted and certain principles of action adopted. Among them are the following: education is the right of every childthe physically and mentally handicapped, the truant and delinquent, as well as the normal child; the state is under obligations to provide an education for all; special efforts should be directed toward making exceptional children happy, selfrespecting, and self-supporting; the cost of education is a productive expenditure of money rather than a charity; and it is economical as well as humanitarian to protect the helpless from want, the irresponsible from ignorance and vice, the family from an unusual burden, and the state from an increase of the helpless and criminal classes. The main reason for establishing classes in the public |