Education: Abnormality to Yen

Monday, Feb. 28, 1944
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The first U.S. educational encyclopedia in 31 years is the new 9O2-page, 4½-lb. Encyclopedia of Modern Education (The Philosophical Library, $10), edited by Harry N. Rivlin of New York City's Queens College. Its articles from Abnormality to Yen, James Yang-ch'u (TIME, Nov. 22) cover just about everything of current academic interest, generally in English plain enough for parents who want to know what teachers are up to.-

The editors take no sides between Progressive educators (TIME, July 5) and their Essentialist opponents (TIME, Sept. 13), print articles by leaders of both camps. Sample topics: educational goals and incentives, the project method, temper tantrums, audio-visual aids, the elective system, the Chicago Plan, aeronautical education.

*The publisher is Dagobert Donald Runes, a Viennese Ph.D. who runs a scholarly little busi ness in Manhattan. Since coming to the U.S. in 1927, he has issued encyclopedias and diction aries of philosophy, literature, child guidance, petroleum, science and technology.

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