The Educational screen (c1922-c1956])

March, 1924 89 THE EDUCATIONAL SCREEN (Including MOVING PICTURE AGE) Vol. Ill, No. 3 Editorial Section march, 1924 THE EDUCATIONAL SCREEN has had the honor and privilege of printing each month the official departments of the two national organizations so far established in the field of visual education, namely, The National Academy of Visual Instruction and The Visual Instruction Association of America. It is also an authorized medium through which the National Congress of Mothers and Parent-Teacher Associations presents to the educational field its monthly list of Film Recommendations by its Better Films Committee. These features of the magazine have been possible only because of its professional character and its freedom from any affiliation which could influence or hinder impartial service to the visual cause. We may be pardoned for feeling some pride in announcing still another authorization which reflects, we believe, the growing confidence felt in this magazine throughout the educational field. We quote, with permission, from a recent letter from the president of the new Department of Visual Instruction in the National Education Association: "Inasmuch as The Educational Screen is the only distinctively educational journal devoting its attention exclusively to visual instruction and which is not dominated, as I believe, by commercial motives, I shall be pleased, while I am president of the Department of Visual Instruction of the National Education Association, to supply you with all notices and plans as rapidly as they develop. You will be at liberty to use them in any way you choose. It will be perfectly proper, I think, for you to set aside a page in the journal heading it 'Visual Instruction Department of the National Education Association.' You might want to give it a sub-title such as 'Notices and Announcements of the Activities of the above department will be given attention here from month to month.' " (Signed) H. B. Wilson, Superintendent of Schools, Berkeley, Calif. We are following the suggestion and the first appearance of the new department in The Educational Screen will be found on another page. For this month the department contains a resume of the address given during the first sessions of the new department held during the recent convention as a part of the Department of Superindence program. NEVER before has visual education received the scholarly attention and extended discussion that was accorded it during the recent February meeting of the Department of Superintendence of the N. E. A. More than twenty addresses were delivered during the week by representative educators throughout the United States, either on the half-day program offered by the Department of Superintendence itself or on the two half-day programs offered by The National Academy of Visual Instruction. Of the former program we present a resume elsewhere in this issue, and hope to print entire in a later number the notable speech by Dr. Charles H. Judd which closed the session with a most able analysis of the present and forecast for the future of the visual movement. Of this wealth of material we shall present all that our space will permit. In this number we give papers by Joseph J. Weber of the University of Arkansas, Frank A. Fucik of the Chicago Schools, and Burton A. Barnes of the Detroit schools. In forthcoming numbers will appear the papers by James N. Emery of the Pawtucket schools, by Cora Johnstone Best of the Minneapolis schools, by Orrin L. Pease of the Buffalo schools, by Charles Roach of Iowa State College, and others. Still others of the papers will appear in the March and April numbers of Visual Education, published by the Society for Visual Education at 806 West Washington Blvd., Chicago, notably those by Susan M. Dorsey of Los Angeles, by James A. Moyer of Boston, by Supt. R. G. Jones of Cleveland.