RESEARCH STUDIES IN EDUCATION

Abstract

IN the last few years the U.S. Office of Education has published an annual Bibliography of Research Studies in Education. The most recent volume to hand* reveals activity in the sphere of education which must be without parallel anywhere else in the world. Altogether, for the year 1938–39, it lists 3,569 theses, submitted by research workers in 174 institutions. Taken in the broad view they give one the impression that in the United States the whole field of education is open to inquiry, that policy is in no way bound down by tradition; instead, accepting democratic principles, it is adjusting itself to the continual changes taking place outside school and college. These research studies provide the material for informed opinion, which cannot fail to exert a beneficial influence upon teachers, administrators, parents, and incidentally upon the pupils, too.