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Title: What the Schools Teach and Might Teach

Author: John Franklin Bobbitt

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WHAT THE SCHOOLS TEACH AND MIGHT TEACH

by

FRANKLIN BOBBITT
Assistant Professor of Educational Administration
The University of Chicago

1915

CLEVELAND EDUCATION SURVEY
Leonard P. Ayres, Director

The Survey Committee of the Cleveland Foundation
Cleveland, Ohio

Charles E. Adams, Chairman
Thomas G. Fitzsimons
Myrta L. Jones
Bascom Little
Victor W. Sincere

Arthur D. Baldwin, Secretary
James R. Garfield, Counsel
Newton D. Baker, Counsel
Alien T. Burns, Director

FOREWORD

This report on "What the Schools Teach and Might Teach" is one of
the 25 sections of the report of the Education Survey of Cleveland
conducted by the Survey Committee of the Cleveland Foundation in
1915. Twenty-three of these sections will be published as separate
monographs. In addition there will be a larger volume giving a summary
of the findings and recommendations relating to the regular work of
the public schools, and a second similar volume giving the summary of
those sections relating to industrial education. Copies of all these
publications may be obtained from the Cleveland Foundation. They may
also be obtained from the Division of Education of the Russell Sage
Foundation, New York City. A complete list will be found in the back
of this volume, together with prices.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword
List of Tables
Prefatory Statement
The Point of View
Reading and Literature
Spelling
Handwriting
Language, Composition, Grammar
Mathematics
Algebra
Geometry
History
Civics
Geography
Drawing and Applied Art
Manual Training and Household Arts
Elementary Science
High School Science
Physiolo