ADDITIONAL COPIES OF THIS PUBLICATION MAY BE PROCURED FROM THE SUPERINTENDENT OF DOCUMENTS GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D. C. AT 15 CENTS PER COPY Chapter III.-School journals specialized to meet local needs__ Chapter IV.-Editors and contributors. 7 14 23 45 B. List including the more important educational periodicals established 1876-1900‒‒‒‒‒ 102 C. List of periodicals short-lived and of local circulation_ 109 D. Educational periodicals devoted to higher education or studies of educational problems. 117 E. Other periodicals 11 117 F. Laws, official reports, and proceedings of teachers' organizations__ 117 118 INTRODUCTION. This study includes consideration of periodicals for the promotion of public-school education, those which deal with the history or scientific study of education, or the technique of schoolroom work, improvement of teachers and general school news. It excludes, at least from all attempt at comprehensive treatment, college and normal school papers; religious, church, and Sunday school publications; periodicals devoted to Indian or Negro education, private or parochial schools, and institutions or the interests of defectives; those designed to promote business college or commercial education, voice culture, and elocution; school papers issued by or for local city school systems, and mere advertising sheets. The principal source of information, fully indicated in the bibliography, has been the periodicals themselves, of which about 1,400 volumes have been examined, two-thirds of this number being studied in detail. Very few of the articles which have attempted to treat the history of individual groups of this class of publications can be depended upon as to the accuracy of their facts; they have been of great assistance in finding material, and when corroborated by other independently derived evidence it has seemed safe in a few cases to accept their statements. For convenience the term "school journal" will be used quite frequently in discussion, with the recognition at the outset that in content, purpose, and general character, the periodicals included by it are by no means a uniform class. Such variations as occurred are part of the subject matter of the study, and there need be no occasion for misunderstanding if Barnard's American Journal of Education, the School Review, the Indiana School Journal, and the Normal Instructor should be referred to as educational periodicals, journals of education, or school journals. As a rule, in general references to a periodical as a series, only the date of its origin is given in the text; by means of the chronological list at the close of the study any publication may be more fully identified. 5 |