Published in 1920, this paper attempts to explain why school officials and voluntary organizations were not pulling together to expand the school's use as a social center—uncertainty as to the people's will. It proposes that asking the community to decide what uses a social center should have will help in the creating of such an agency.
CLARENCE ARTHUR PERRY, Department of Child Hygiene, Russell Sage Foundation
A chapter of The Modern High School, published by Charles Scribner's Sons, this paper analyzes the expanding role of high schools as education centers, particularly as growing social centers for the community around them. It details how a school principal can adapt to this growing role and define the public education of the community.
CLARENCE ARTHUR PERRY, Department of Child Hygiene, Russell Sage Foundation
A paper delivered at the National Conference of Charities and Correction, in 1914.
CLARENCE ARTHUR PERRY, Department of Child Hygiene, Russell Sage Foundation
The first part of this pamphlet originally appeared in the April 1912 issue of the American School Board Journal, detailing a number of facilities to modern elementary school architecture that would also benefit the broader social community. Featured here are a number of plans that have been adopted in American cities that illustrate this.
CLARENCE ARTHUR PERRY, Department of Child Hygiene, Russell Sage Foundation
Address delivered in 1911, before the Principals' Association of Graded Schools.
CLARENCE ARTHUR PERRY, Department of Child Hygiene, Russell Sage Foundation
Published in 1912, this paper addresses what must be done to establish a social center in an existing school, particularly by developing community interest in such an endeavor and by appointing a proper director or leader with a set of demonstrated qualifications. Details are provided in how to organize the agency, as well as a number of legal obstacles that have to be overcome.
CLARENCE ARTHUR PERRY, Department of Child Hygiene, Russell Sage Foundation
This pamphlet, published in 1910, aims to serve as a guide for a better and more beneficent organization of social service work in the United States, combating the neglect of bad social conditions and aimless charitable activity. It provides a detailed analysis of social conditions in smaller cities, with a wealth of practical advice and illustration.
FRANCIS H. McLEAN was field secretary of the Charity Organization Department of the Russell Sage Foundation.
This report presents data related to the casework service of medical social work departments of New York City hospitals in 1945, with topics related to staff turnover, casework process, and staff size relative to hospital size.
RALPH G. HURLIN was director of the Department of Statistics of the Russell Sage Foundation.
Presented before the Children's Section of the National Conference of Charities and Correction in 1915, this paper examines part of a study through the Boston Children's Aid Society that aimed to state the services of a child-placing society in certain exact terms, with the hope of establishing certain standards to measure this sect of social work. By measuring the society's standards, it also looks to determine what might be failing and provide possible solutions.
RUTH W. LAWTON was research worker, Boston Children’s Aid Society.
J. PRENTICE MURPHY was general secretary, Boston Children's Aid Society.
