In almost every case the clubs have purchased the equipment and paid the salaries until the boards of education and the school superintendents have been convinced of the value of the innovations.

In the South, where opportunities for the higher education of women are restricted, the clubs support dozens of scholarships in colleges and institutes.

Many western State federations, notable among which is that of Colorado, have strong committees on education which are active in the entire school system.
Thomas M.Balliett, Dean of Pedagogy in the New York University, paid a deserved tribute to the Massachusetts club women when he said: In Massachusetts the various women's organizations have, within the past few years, made a study of schools and school conditions throughout the State with a thoroughness that has never been attempted before.
Dean Balliett says of women's clubs in general that the most important reform movements in elementary education within the past twenty years have been due, in large measure, to the efforts of organized women.

And he is right.
The women's clubs have founded more libraries than Mr.Carnegie.

Early in the movement the women began the circulation among the clubs of traveling reference libraries.