A MONTHLY MAGAZINE DEVOTED TO The Science, Art, Philosophy and FRANK HERBERT PALMER, A. M., Editor VOLUME XLV BOSTON THE PALMER COMPANY 120 BOYLSTON STREET 1925 CONTENTS PAGE American Notes-Editorial. 57, 12, 183, 245, 311, 376, 438, 504, 567, 635 Book Review, Motivation of. Chemistry Laboratory, Grouping Students in. W. G. Bowers College Teacher, Expectancy of Continuance and Promotion. W. S. Brooks. Curriculum-Making. May H. Prentice Curve of Distribution, The Normal. F. L. Cardozo 629 108 429 489 203 577 29 .116 Direct Method in Modern Language Instruction. F. D. Cheydleur 345 Education, Human Elements in. Charles C. Reigner 240 Education, Old and New. Principal Alfred E. Stearns English, Place of in Foreign Language Work. A. A. Shapiro MATC Grouping Students in Chemistry Laboratory Work. W. G. Bowers History, American, in the Curriculum. Ella S. Johnston 547 47 429 129 Learning, Directing. E. E. Kline Literature, Three Great Arts for the Teacher of. Locke, John, as Contributor to Education. David I. Jones Mathematics, or Hieroglyphics. A. W. Forbes Modern Language Instruction, Direct Method in. 226 193 284 105 Nordic Tendency, Implications of the Origin of. W. S. McNutt 483 338 321 333 Penmanship, Motivation of. Bergoth Sand Poetry, My Class in Contemporary. James Cloyd Bowman Psychology to the Aid of Exposition. Dora D. Farrington Radio in Education. C. Marcus Wienend . Reasoning Test, The Dwight. A. S. Dwight Shakespeare, How to Study in the High School. J. Milnor Dorey Thoughts on Education, Emerson's. Ada E. Davis . Time, How Shall a Teacher Invest It? Georgine R. Harris Vocational Guidance, Aspects of. Theodore W. Noon Voice Training in the English Class. Augusta Colby Washington Conference, The, Impressions of. Henry Flury 158 557 46 Devoted to the Science, Art, Philosophy and Literature The Junior High School RANSOM A. MACKIE, M.A., STATE NORMAL COLLEGE, D No. I URING the last decade much progress has been made in reorganizing education. In recent years almost all school systems throughout the United States have been reorganized, and the great majority of cities have, or are intending to have, junior high schools established. A large and increasing number of smaller cities are building junior high schools, but the idea especially appeals to the larger places. Of the sixty largest cities in the United States, twenty-six have junior high schools and twenty more are planning to adopt the new plan of organization.2 Nearly all of these cities have accepted the "6-3-3 plan” of organization. Instead of the usual eight years for elementary and four years for high school work, the twelve grades are divided into elementary education, comprising the first six grades, and secondary education, comprising grades seven to 1 W. S. Deffenbaugh, Secondary Education in 1921 and 1922, Bulletin No. 12, 20. C. Pratt, Status of the Junior High School in Larger Cities. School Review, Nov. 1922, Vol. 30, pages 663-670. |