Excerpt from Report of the President, Vol. 1: The Business of the Year
To the Chairman and Trustees of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching:
In accordance with the by-laws, I present herewith the Ninth Annual Report of the President of the Foundation for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1914.
The report is confined in the main to a statement of the current business of the Foundation, but includes also, as in previous years, papers dealing with specific educational problems. The field of medical education has received particular attention. The work of the small staff of the Foundation has during the past year been given almost exclusively to certain large continuing studies that have been undertaken thru the establishment of the Division of Educational Enquiry and the results of which will appear in separate bulletins.
Of these studies the report on Education in Vermont has already been published. An account of this work, its reception by the public, and the action of the Vermont Educational Commission with regard to it, will be presented later.
The other projects under way include a study of legal education, the enquiry into the methods of engineering education, and a study of the training of teachers. The progress made upon these studies and the methods pursued are discussed in the following pages.
It is the policy of the trustees of the Foundation not to build up a large staffer to develop into a bureau. For this reason only a small number of men constitute the permanent staff of the Foundation. By the courtesy of various universities the Foundation finds it possible to arrange for a leave of absence for a professor by which he can devote a year of continuous work to a given problem. It is hoped by such a process to bring continually a new interest and a fresh point of view to the study of educational questions. For the present year, by the kindness of the University of Chicago, Professor C.R. Mann, of the department of physics, is spending a year with the Foundation in the study of engineering education, and by a similar arrangement Professor Homer W. Josselyn has come from the University of Kansas to participate in a study of the training of teachers.
The annual reports of the Foundation devote considerable space to a record of pension systems in order that the literature of the subject may be accessible. Pension systems are being inaugurated in so many ways and under such diverse conditions that some account of recent developments may appropriately be given by a pension agency like the Foundation.
The exchange of teachers with Prussia has been temporarily interrupted by the European War. No exchange teachers will be appointed for the year 1914-15.
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