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POPULAR SCIEXCE MONTHLY 



William Henry Maxwell, Superintendent of Schools, the City of New York, 

 President of the National Educational Association. 



tion of child labor to the decrease of 

 the birth rate. 



In addition to the general sessions, 

 there was the usual meeting of the 

 National Council of Education, which 

 consists of sixty of the more active 

 members of the association and holds 

 sessions of general interest. There 

 are, further, departments of kinder- 

 garten education, elementary education, 

 secondary education, higher education, 

 normal schools, manual training, art 

 training, musical training, business 



training, child-study, science instruc- 

 tion, physical education, school admin- 

 istration, library, special education and 

 Indian education, all of which pre- 

 sented programs. 



At the meetings of the National Edu- 

 cational Association there is a vast 

 flood of platitudes annually poured out, 

 but when there are practical questions 

 to be discussed, the proceedings become 

 at once more interesting and more sci- 

 entific. The teachers are taking an in- 

 creasing interest in all questions con- 



