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Show Education Association Expects Many To Attend Salt Lake Meet Salt Lake City will be a magnet for hundreds of teachers and parents throughout Utah, as the Progressive Education association comes to this state for the first time, in a three day conference to be held on April 22, 23, and 24.. at the Hotel Utah. Dr. Charles H. Skidmore, state department of public instruction, Salt Lake City, will preside as chairman. "Progressive Education Moves Ahead", will be the theme of the meeting. The manner in which a growing number of American schools have striven to build a more effective program of education educa-tion in terms of a shifting American Ameri-can scene, the ways they have utilized new discoveries about the individual and the way he learns to meet the ever more urgent social demands of this scene, will be thoroughly discussed in all their phases, both as they pertain to elementary and secondary schools. Speaking on the general subject of "What is Progressive Education?" Educa-tion?" will be the dean of the progressive education movement in American, Dr. William Heard Kilpatrick, professor of education at Teachers college, New York City. On Friday evening at 7:30 p.m. Williard W. Beatty, director of Indian education, Washington, D. (Continued on page six) LD.S. Conference (Continued from first page) C will preside as chairman at a session dealing with "Dynamic Education". Dr. Louis E. Raths. of Ohio State university will speak on "Tests, Records and Reports In Progressive Schools". Dr. Ixiis Hayden Meek, professor profes-sor of education at Teachers col-lego, col-lego, will speak at a general session ses-sion on Friday morning on the subject. "The School's Responsibility Responsi-bility For Developing Cooperation With parents". Other distinguished educators. .who will bo present are: El.-ie Ripley Clapp. former pupil and assistant of John Dewey and at the present time editor of the journal. "Progressive Education", who will speak on "The Development Develop-ment of Community SchooK": Paul Hanna. professor of education educa-tion at Stanford university, expert ex-pert on curriculum study, author of "Youth Servos the Community" and numerous other publications. His subject will bo "Progressive Curriculum Trends In Elementary and Secondary Schools". C. L. Cushman. curriculum director of Denver public schools; M. R. Ahrens. Denver public schools, who ' will discuss "Trends in Science In the Secondary School ". and Robert Lane. Los Angeles public Schools, who will take up "Problems in ! Organizing." |