Selection of Well-Constructed Courses, Accrediting Supervised REPORTOP CONEERENCE ON SUPERVISEDCORR~SPONDENCE STUDY. Published for Teachers College, Columbia Univer- Correspondence Study, Standardizing Cost Accounting, Initiatsity, by the International Textbook Co., Scranton, Pa., 1934. ing a Program of Supervised Correspondence Study in the Local School, and Summary and Problems of Future Development. It 66 pp. 15 X 23 cm. $0.25. also gives the names of participants in the conference. and a The American Secondary School is confronted with two major comprehensive annotated bibliography. problems of an opposing nature. One is the increasingly insistent demand for a broader curriculum that realistically prepares the pupil for the problems of life, and the other the necessity RUBBER:ITSANT-OXIDANTS AND PRESERVATIVES. A bibliogfor operating the schooleconomically.. raphy compiled by the Science Library and the Research AsThe high-school administrator must then provide a broader, sociation of British Rubber Manufacturers. (Science Library richer curriculum despite the fact that his budget is limited. Bibliographical Series No. 151.) London, 1934. Price, 5s. At first glance, this seems impossible. It is diEcnlt, if not imOd. net. Post free, 5s. 7d. possible, when only the traditional methods and technics of teachAs the Science Library has had the valuable help of the Nedering are used. However, as in every emergency, ways are being developed to meet the situation. Through such means as landsch Instituut voor Documentatie en Registratuur. Imperial utilization of community resources, increasing use of alternation Chemical Industries, and the Rijks Rubberdienst in addition to of classes, circuit teachers, increased class size, reorganization of the advantage of collaboration with the Research Association of teachine materials. new divisions of labor between the classroom British Rubber Manufacturers in the compilation of this work, it ~teacher and the author of text materials, individualzing of is assuredly the most complete bibliography of its subject that instructional matcrinls, and use of supervi.;ed corrccpondence has been issued. The scope of the work comprises such subjects as the theory of courses, it has bpen possible for many schools to maintain and antioxidan+s, storage of rubber, corrosion and deterioration, broaden their offeringsin a practical way. Among the most promising of these is the use of supervised absorption of water and other liquids, action of light. preservation correspondence courses. Through them it is possible for a school in general, oil-, acid-, and liquid-resistant rubber, and antioxito provide a wide variety of courses from which to choose those dants. The volume occupies some eighty pages and includcs adapted to the needs of particular students. Students thus can some fifteen hundred references. It is classified by the Universal enter many fields which could not otherwise be taught economi- Decimal Classification, the numbers used being controlled by cally except in a few of the largest metropolitan high schools. preliminary classification of the entries a t the Research AssociaThis method of teaching has been developing rapidly, both in the tion of British Rubber Manufacturers. The work forms part of a series of bibliographies, now numberUnited States and in foreigncountries. Experimentation in this method of instruction has been carried ing 151, on various branches of science and technology, which on by scattered groups throughout the United States for several are prepared by the Science Library in response t o individual years. The purpose of the Teachers College conference of demand, or on the occasion of special exhibitions. A complete those who had carried on. list of titles is given a t the end of this number. If these carefully Aueust. - . 1934. was to brine- toeether experimentation to exchange ideas, standardize technics where prepared and extensive bibliographies were better known, they practical, and to fortnulate policies re~ardingthe use of supcr- would save much time of research workers in collecting infomavised Correspundcnre Study as a practical means of enriching the tion on special subjects. To reduce the cost of preparation the publications are issued curriculum of American SecondarySchools. The report contains the following chapters: The Place and in mimeographed form. Copies of this or any number may be Purpose of Supervised Correspondence Study, Guidance and obtained direct from the Science Museum,,Smth Kensington, Supervised Correspondence Study, The Local Supervisor, The London, S.W. 7.
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