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A MONTHLY MAGAZINE

DEVOTED TO

The Science, Art, Philosophy and
Literature of Education

FRANK HERBERT PALMER, Editor

VOLUME XXXI

SEPTEMBER, 1910-JUNE, 1911

BOSTON

THE PALMER COMPANY

120 BOYLSTON STREET

1911

CONTENTS.

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Art, History of as a College Discipline. T. Lindsey Blayney

Biology, High School Course in. Arthur S. Dewing

Book Notices

63, 136, 206, 267, 349, 415, 490, 562, 634, 701

Business, College Training for. John M. Lathrop
Certification of High School Teachers. David Snedden
Classics, Some Uses of to Modern Student. Preston S. Moulton
Class Room Idyll. (Poem) R. T. House
College and the Rural Districts. Wallace N. Stearns
College Bred Teachers, Training of. Paul H. Hanus
College Entrance Certificate Board, How it can Help the High
School. W. H. Holmes

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College Preparation; The College View. Alexander Meiklejohn
College Preparation; The High School View. Charles F. Harper
Colleges and Public Schools, Duty of New England to. Thomas A.
Jagger, Jr.

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College Stagecraft. Frank R. Arnold

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College Students, Self Help among. Clayton H. Ranck
College Training for Business. John M. Lathrop
Commercial High School Curriculum. Raymond G. Laird
Composition, Oral. Emma M. Bolenius

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Elementary School Ideals. Katharine Woodward Huston

English, Differentiation of the High School Course in. President

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English Essential Principles.

Charles Swain Thomas

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French Literary Anniversaries of 1911.

Geography, Where lay the Emphasis in
German Schools, Religious Problem in.
Girls, Vocational Training for. Idabelle McGlauflin
Habit Formation, The Importance of. O. J. Schuster
Harris, William T. Professor T. Treudly

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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
High School, Outside Interests and Major Subjects in. Alice S.
Botkin

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High Schools, Natural Science in. Frank P. Whitney

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High School Students' Organizations. David E. Cloyd

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High School Teachers, Certification of. David Snedden
History, Outlook in Teaching. Charles Welsh

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Home and School. Superintendent J. M. Greenwood

170, 238, 390

Hygiene, School, Physiological Aspects of. George V. N. Dearborn
Individual Student, How to Reach. J. E. Hickman
Industrial Education. James Parton Haney

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Devoted to the Science, Art, Philosophy and Literature

of Education

VOL. XXXI

SEPTEMBER, 1910

No. I

Instruction of Exceptional Children in the New York City Public Schools

ANDREW W. EDSON, ASSOCIATE CITY SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS

I

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

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