New York University School of Pedagogy, established in 1890, aims .to furnish graduate work equal in range to other professional schools. The school is an organic part of the university, having its own dean and faculty. More definitely, its aim is declared to be to furnish thorough and complete professional training for teachers. The plan of the school places it upon the same basis as that of the best schools of law, medicine and theology. The work is of distinctively university grade, and graduates of colleges and normal schools, and others of equal experience and maturity, may find in this school opportunity for the thor ough study of higher pedagoor, . In 1898-99, the instruction was distributed in four major and eight minor courses, namely, history of education; physiological and experimental psychology; analytical psychology; history of philosophy; physiological pedagogics; elements of pedagogy; comparative study of national school systems; wsthetics in relation to educa tion; sociology in relation to education; in stitutes of pedagogy, ethics, school org.aniza lion, management and administration. Special facilities for research are offered. to the semi naries. The degree of Master of Pedagogy is conferred upon candidates who have completed five of the foregoing courses, three of them majors; the degree of Doctor of Pedagogy upon (.....ndidates who have completed the four major and five of the minor courses.
Clark University, opened in 1889, has given much attention to education from the first, and the subject has now been made a sub-depart ment in the department of psychology, in which a minor may be taken for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. The work is intended to meet the needs of those intending to teach some other specialty than education, but who wish a general survey of the history, present state, methods and recent advances in the field of university, professional and technical education, and of those who desire to become professors of pedagogy, or heads of instruction in normal schools, superintendents, or to become profes sional experts in the work of education. Great
stress is placed on original investigation. The president, Dr. G. Stanley Hall, has been the leader of the child study movement in the United States. The Pedagogical Seminary is the Organ of the educational department of the university. h is an international record of educational research and literature, institu tions and progress, and is devoted to the in terests of education of all grades.
The department of pedagogy in the Univer sity of Chicago has as its primary aim to train competent specialists for the broad and scien tific treatment of educational problems. The courses fall under three heads: Psychology and related work, educational theory and the best methods of teaching the various branches. Stress is laid upcon the relation of pedagogy to other subjects, and courses are offered in the proper departments in which the methodology of such subjects is employed.
The University of Chicago has also estab lished a college for teachers on a somewhat novel plan. This institution, which was founded in October 1898, is an outgrowth of the class study department of the extension division of the university. It is a °downtowns college, and aims to Drovide instruction of high grade for busy people; or, more definitely, "for any and all persons qualified to do the work, who are so engaged by other imperative duties as to make continuous attendance at the other colleges of the university impracticable The work of the college is of the same grades as that of the other colleges of the university. See CHICAGO, UNIVERSITY OF.
The University .of Wisconsin school of edu cation is an expansion of the former department of education. The four main lines of instruc tion are the history, the philosophy, the science and the practice of education. The school aims to afford practical instruction to intending teachers, professors, principals and superintend ents, and to those students who desire to pm- sue studies and investigations in the science of education.