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Zoning

Author
Edward M. Bassett
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Publication Date
41 pages

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A compact but complete handbook of zoning covering the story of the spread of this movement, the reasons for zoning, the experiences of various zoned cities, the correct principles and best practice, the legal pitfalls and a selected list of reference.

EDWARD M. BASSETT was chairman of the Zoning Committee of New York.

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

Author
Luther H. Gulick
Ebook
Publication Date
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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A Survey of School Social Centers

Author
Clarence A. Perry
Ebook
Publication Date
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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No author
Ebook
Publication Date
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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How the Social Center Promotes Reform Movements

Author
Clarence A. Perry
Ebook
Publication Date
7 pages

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This booklet discusses how social centers promote reform movements. It notes that social centers provide patriotic education of immigrants through public ceremonies held for their naturalization, civic and health education, the promotion of baby welfare, the elevation of political discussions, and the dignification of voting through the maintenance of balloting booths. The booklet concludes with a list of foundation pamphlets on the topic of the social center.

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

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New York School Centers and Their Community Policy

Authors
Clarence A. Perry
Marguerita P. Williams
Ebook
Publication Date
78 pages

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This booklet discusses the use of schools as community centers and the centers’ policies. Topics include the New York school center system of the time, the historical antecedents of community policy, and community use and its regulation. An appendix provides a directory of official and unofficial community centers.

CLARENCE A. PERRY worked in the Department of Recreation at the Russell Sage Foundation.

MARGUERITA P. WILLIAMS worked in the Department of Recreation at the Russell Sage Foundation.

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Delinquency and Corrections: Part II, Topeka Improvement Survey

Author
Zenas L. Potter
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Publication Date
64 pages

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More than sixteen hundred people were arrested in Topeka in 1913. This booklet seeks to investigate how the city’s police department, courts, jails, and probation officers are treating the offenders. It discusses the police department, court penalties, city and county jails, probation and parole for adults, juvenile delinquency, and preventive work and the provides general conclusions.

ZENAS L. POTTER worked in the Department of Surveys and Exhibits at the Russell Sage Foundation.

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Operation Statistics of Selected Family Casework Agencies, 1943: Summary of Statistics Reported Monthly During the Year Together with Trend Data for the Period 1936 to 1943

Author
Ralph G. Hurlin
Ebook
Publication Date
27 pages

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This booklet continues a series of similar annual summaries of operating statistics of private family welfare agencies issued since 1936. It is based on data reported monthly and made available to the reporting agencies and others in a monthly table of comparative statistics.

RALPH G. HURLIN was director of the Department of Statistics of the Russell Sage Foundation.

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Operation Statistics of Selected Family Casework Agencies, 1944: With Trend data for the Period 1936–1944

Author
Ralph G. Hurlin
Ebook
Publication Date
29 pages

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During 1944 the Department of Statistics of the Russell Sage Foundation continued the collection of statistics of the operations of family casework organizations with the same sixty agencies that participated in the two preceding years. This booklet contains detailed comparative statistics of the work of those agencies for the calendar year 1944, derived from their reported monthly statistics. It also records service trends, shown by these and corresponding earlier data, for the nine-year period 1936 to 1944.

RALPH G. HURLIN was director of the Department of Statistics of the Russell Sage Foundation.

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