Published in 1913, The Effect of Promotion Rates on School Efficiency presents findings that illustrate the great importance of small differences in promotion rates in education, particularly the degree to which children are trained in habits of success and failure.
LEONARD P. AYRES was director of the Division of Education at the Russell Sage Foundation.
This pamphlet explores constant occupations, occupations which offer opportunities for employment to a number of workers in a variety of areas, rather than site-specific, less constant, or variable occupations, and their implications on vocational education.
LEONARD P. AYRES was director of the Division of Education at the Russell Sage Foundation.
This article offers an evaluation of the Binet-Simon Measuring Scale for Intelligence, a 1908 series of tests developed by French psychologists for the diagnosis of the level of intelligence of children. The scale had widespread application at the time, with minor variations to adapt to the needs of American children. By assessing each test and determining a number of flaws, such as overemphasis on “puzzle tests,” the author argues that, beyond small adjustments, an entirely new measuring scale is needed to test intellectual performance.
LEONARD P. AYRES was director of the Division of Education at the Russell Sage Foundation.
Three papers were read at a meeting of the American Public Health Association in 1916. They report on the lack of statistical evidence and analysis in health investigations, and why the statistical method is such a necessary element in public health research.
DONALD ARMSTRONG was executive officer of the Community Health and Tuberculosis Demonstration and assistant secretary of the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis.
FRANZ SCHNEIDER, JR. was sanitarian at the Department of Surveys and Exhibits of the Russell Sage Foundation.
LOUIS I. DUBLIN was statistician at the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company.
This report gives an account of a detailed study of a group of wage-earning mothers and a statement of the conclusions of the study. The group of women in question lived on the Middle West Side of New York.
KATHARINE ANTHONY was the author of Mothers Who Must Earn, Feminism in Germany and Scandinavia, and Labor Laws of New York.
A compilation of various surveys carried out by the RSF Department of Survey and Exhibits in 1915.
This volume was published as part of The Pittsburgh Survey, edited by Paul Underwood Kellogg.
MARGARET F. BYINGTON was associate director of the Charity Organization Department of the Russell Sage Foundation.
A look into the rising cost of education, Trends of School Costs was published in 1920. It analyzes the different aspects at play in the cost of public school education, including the relationship between growing attendance rates and cost. Of prime importance are trends in teachers' salaries, compared to the cost of living and the salaries of other workers. Future pricing trends are predicted.
W. RANDOLPH BURGUESS, Department of Education, Russell Sage Foundation
From the introduction: "What is happening to the motives and attitudes of givers? Patterns of giving are changing. Shifts are occurring in the givers' choices among three chief almoners-- the church, government, and voluntary agencies. Religion, the mother of charities, has not suffered the eclipse predicted by some earlier observers, but how much is giving now affected by religious sanctions or the hope of heaven? Do givers approve the expansion of governmental welfare services? Is their interest in voluntary giving falling off because giving goes not to service agencies, or to a fund-raising agency for service agencies, with fewer and remoter contacts with the people who need help?"
F. EMERSON ANDREWS was director of the Foundation Library Center.
Outline of Town and City Planning, published in 1935, is a study of city planning both as an art and as public policy. The book is in one part a history of city planning, from early efforts in ancient Egypt, Asia, and the Americas, to modern day principles and the future of city planning in the United States. It is also an analysis of how changes in the character and size of cities have influenced the scope and practice of city planning.
THOMAS ADAMS was associate professor at the School of City Planning, Harvard University; special lecturer in city planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and consultant to Regional Plan Association of New York.
