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The Relation of Physical Defects to School Progress

Author
Leonard P. Ayres
Ebook
Publication Date
10 pages

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This paper, reprinted from the Eleventh Annual Report of the City Superintendent of Schools, New York City, 1909, by the Department of Child Hygiene of the Russell Sage Foundation, attempted to examine any possible relations between physical disability and school progress in children.

LEONARD P. AYRES was director of the Division of Education at the Russell Sage Foundation.

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The Social Survey

The Idea Defined and its Development Traced
Author
Shelby M. Harrison
Ebook
Publication Date
44 pages

About This Book

This pamphlet is a 1931 reprint of the introduction to A Bibliography of Social Surveys, serving as a presentation of the survey movement at the time. It includes a short historical retrospect, an attempt at a definition of the survey and its purpose, and a brief analysis of trends in surveys since 1907, the year in which the Pittsburgh Survey was begun.

SHELBY M. HARRISON was director of the Department of Surveys and Exhibits at the Russell Sage Foundation.

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The Health Show Comes to Town

Author
Evart G. Routzahn
Ebook
Publication Date
32 pages

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The Health Show Comes to Town is a report of a public health education campaign led by Dr. W.W. Peter in U.S. cities.

EVART G. ROUTZAHN was associate director of the Department of Surveys and Exhibits at the Russell Sage Foundation.

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Social Problems of Alabama

Author
Hastings H. Hart
Ebook
Publication Date
24 pages

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A study of the social institutions and agencies of the state of Alabama, as related to its war activities.

HASTINGS H. HART was director of the Department of Child-Helping of the Russell Sage Foundation.

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School Center Gazette

Editor
Clarence Arthur Perry
Hardcover
Publication Date
60 pages

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A listing of after-school activities organized in public schools across the United States from 1919 to 1920.

CLARENCE ARTHUR PERRY, Department of Child Hygiene, Russell Sage Foundation

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Child Welfare Work in Pennsylvania

Author
W. H. Slingerland
Ebook
Publication Date
426 pages

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A report of a 1915 study of child welfare agencies in Pennsylvania, with recommendations for improving conditions.

WILLIAM H. SLINGERLAND was a special agent in the Department of Child-Helping of the Russell Sage Foundation.

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Child-placing in Families

Author
W. H. Slingerland
Hardcover
Publication Date
204 pages

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A manual prepared in 1918 for the strengthening and standardization of the practice of placing orphaned or foster children in homes.

WILLIAM H. SLINGERLAND was a special agent in the Department of Child-Helping of the Russell Sage Foundation.

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A Constructive Program

of Organized Child Welfare Work for New Orleans and Louisiana
Author
W. H. Slingerland
Hardcover
Publication Date
37 pages

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An address delivered before the Social Workers Section of the Southern Sociological Congress, in New Orleans in April 1916.

WILLIAM H. SLINGERLAND was a special agent in the Department of Child-Helping of the Russell Sage Foundation.

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A Child Welfare Symposium

Editor
W. H. Slingerland
Ebook
Publication Date
153 pages

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Twenty five papers contributed as supplement to "Child Welfare Work in Pennsylvania", a cooperative study of child-helping agencies and institutions.

WILLIAM H. SLINGERLAND was a special agent in the Department of Child-Helping of the Russell Sage Foundation.

CONTRIBUTORS: Charlotte Abbey, Joseph A. Beck, William Bradford Buck, Iva E. Burr, J. Bruce Byall, Bele Chalfant, Thomas F. Coakley, Rudolph I. Coffee, William A. Credditt, Max C. Currick, Aaron D. Faber, Martha P. Falconer, Mrs. Henry Finkelpearl, Alexander Fleisher, James Struthers Heberling, L. Walter Mason, Bernard J. Newman, F. H. Nibecker, Mrs. E. A. Puncheon, Bertha Rauh, H.P. Richardson, William H. Slingerland, Edwin D. Solenberger, Roy Smith Wallace, Bromley Wharton, Frank D. Witherbee

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A Child Welfare Problem

Author
W. H. Slingerland
Ebook
Publication Date
30 pages

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A study and recommendations on the care and cure of enuresis, or, bedwetting, in child-care institutions.

WILLIAM H. SLINGERLAND was a special agent in the Department of Child-Helping of the Russell Sage Foundation.

 

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