Excerpt from History of Education in Iowa, Vol. 2 The chapters in this volume treat mainly of those activities and organizations which are the outgrowth of experience. The educational plant having been equipped with the machinery, it seems to have re quired an increasing number of agencies to develop and direct it. Hence supervision in due time found its place; the institute took on a new form; and the mutual interest of a common occupation led to the. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from History of Education in Iowa, Vol. 5 This volume of the History of Education in Iowa includes brief accounts of the history of five types of State educational or semi-educational institutions in Iowa: the College for the Blind, the School for the Deaf, the Soldiers Orphans Home, the Reform Schools, and the Institution for the Feeble-Minded. Dr. Aurner's work in compiling this volume was finished in 1916; but conditions brought about by the World War have delayed publication for a period of nearly four years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Iowa, Its History and Its Foremost Citizens, Vol. 2: Home and School Edition Chapter VIII. The Jackson Administration - 'i'he Overshadowing Issue of the Period - The Mulct Law. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from University of Iowa Studies, Vol. 2: Studies in Education In attempting to solve some of these problems one is con fronted with the desirability of some tests or scales with which to measure ability or achievement. With suitable means of measuring ability one can determine the amount of improvement in the given ability due to any given method used. Evidently a suitable means of measuring must be Objective. The personal, or subjective, element must be eliminated, in order to arrive at accuracy similar to that obtainable with the meter-stick or the foot-rule (9, The purpose of this study is to derive scales for measuring the results of physics teaching and to show some of their uses and applications as means of objective measurement. It is hoped that the results of this investigation may prove to be of some value in solving some of the many problems confronting physics instructors and supervisors. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Voice of Iowa, Vol. 2: September 1857 Barrow, whom Charles II pronounced an unfair preacher, because he so exhausted the subject as left nothing for others to say, was a. Mathematician second only to Newton. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.