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How Motion Pictures May Be Obtained

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3 pages

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This one-page article provides information on how motion pictures of educational value may be obtained. It notes that the General Film Company has recently organized an Education Department and that the department has a catalogue of films that will be sent upon request. Rental prices vary from $5 to $10 a day per reel.

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Folk Dancing: Illustrating the Educational, Civic, and Moral Value of Folk Dancing

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Luther H. Gulick
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26 pages

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This illustrated booklet discusses the moral value of folk dancing. Part I covers folk and national dances. Part II covers the use of folk dancing in a public school system, as shown by its use by the girls’ branch of the Public Schools Athletic League of New York City.

LUTHER H. GULICK was director of the Department of Child Hygiene at the Russell Sage Foundation.

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Some Correspondence of Interest to American Women

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8 pages

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This booklet includes correspondence from Margaret Woodrow Wilson, a daughter of President Woodrow Wilson and a champion of the social-center cause. She appeals to the State Federations composing the General Federation of Women’s Clubs to take up this timely and important task. The correspondence is followed by a typed list of essential provisions of an adequate social-center law.

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A Survey of School Social Centers

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Clarence A. Perry
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20 pages

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This booklet reports on the results of a survey on school social centers sent to 774 school superintendents. It includes charts on cities that reported having schoolhouse social or recreation centers at which there were some paid workers and that reported schools with libraries. The booklet also discusses civic aspects of recent social-center development.

CLARENCE A. PERRY was an urban planner, sociologist, and educator.

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A Comparative Study of Public School Systems in the Forty-Eight States

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33 pages

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This booklet is aimed at legislators, school workers, and others interested in public education and provides facts concerning school conditions in all the states. Topics include investment in the school building, expenditure per school-age child, the length of the school year and attendance, workers and wages, textbook legislation, medical inspection legislation, and tests of efficiency, among other topics.

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