Our Schools in War Time—and AfterDean, Arthur D. (Arthur Davis)
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Our Schools in War Time—and After
Dean, Arthur D. (Arthur Davis)
Education -- United States; World War, 1914-1918 -- War work -- Schools
Red Cross, work for, in schools, 194, 196-198, 311;
a state plan of school service to, 200-201;
use of knitting machines, 202;
work for, in Troy, N.Y., 202-205;
making splints, 206;
Home Service division of, 207-208;
Junior Red Cross, 207, 209-210;
what can be done in schools for, 207;
reporting home conditions to, 308
Reëducation, the problem of the physically handicapped, 211-213;
relation to federal insurance, 213;
a government problem, 214;
instruction for the blind in France, 215;
L'École Joffre, 216-219;
instruction in vocational subjects in France, 218-221, 224-225;
percentage capable of, in France, 222;
the problem in the United States, 225-228;
industrial accidents and, 232
Roosevelt, Theodore, 11, 324-325
Rural schools, agricultural labor under direction of, 153-154;
camp in connection with, 302
School boards, in relation to war service, 306-307;
provisions of, for drafted teachers, 307-308;
organization of vocational courses by, 310;
planning for agriculture by, 310;
work of, for avoiding juvenile delinquency, 310
School principals, 33-34, 310-314
Schools, as distributing centers for pamphlets, etc., 22, 311;
furnishing lunches to children in, 128-129, 308;
opportunity for poster work in, 129-130;
maintaining efficiency of, 146;
keeping children in, 147, 308;
postponement of construction work for, 149;
agricultural activities in rural, 153;
lengthening terms and hours of, 308.
_See also_ Commercial schools, French schools, etc.
Smith-Hughes Bill, 54, 57
Teachers, work of, in promoting French government loans, 39-40;
opportunities of, to teach history, 46-49;
New York State directions to, 119-121;
service of, on committees, 326;
war-service programs of, 326
Technical institutes: war-service courses in Wentworth Institute,
Boston, 106-107;
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, 107-108;
Dunwoody Institute, Minneapolis, 108-111
Thrift, necessity for, 31-33;
practice of, in England, 31-32, 36-37;
teaching of, 35;
campaign for, 311;
Thrift Club, 321
Trade schools. _See_ Industrial and trade schools
Traveling kitchens, 29, 124
Unit courses, organization of, 73-74;
utility of, 306
United States Boys' Working Reserve, 163-164, 322-324
Vocational education, definition of, 53;
federal grants for, 54-55;
federal requirements of, 56;
adjustment of, to industrial needs, 59;
standardization of products, 195;
"safety-first" instruction in, 212;
opportunity for teachers in, 233;
influence of automatic machinery on, 329;
for distinct callings, 329
War Savings certificates, in England, 36-37;
in the United States, 311
Wilson, Woodrow, 1, 54, 72-73, 81-82, 209, 324
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