The Educational interests of the country are served by many agencies and organizations, chief among them the U.S.

Bureau of Education, the Federal Board of Vocational Education at Washington, D.C., which publish invaluable material, and the National Education Association, with office at 1201 Sixteenth Street, Washington, D.C., membership in which keeps one in touch with progressive movements.
The vital thing for one who would prepare for practical service in any line of social work is to study people and conditions in one's own locality and then compare what is done or attempted in that locality with what is considered by those best fitted to judge to be the best and most efficient standards for service of the kind considered.
The vital thing for those who would help in the educational field is to know their local schools, their teachers, buildings, equipment, management, and financial support, and then to secure all possible national, state, and local aid in making those schools the best they can be.
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If the newest movements in education are chosen for study, read The New Education, by L.Haden Guest, and other articles in _The New Era_, published by Hodder and Co., London, England.

Also Nursery School Experiment, by Bureau of Educational Experiments, 144 West Thirteenth Street, New York City.
For comparison with these, read Talks to Teachers, by William James, and also pamphlets of Home Education Series, by Charlotte Mason, published by Parents' National Education Union, 26 Victoria Street, London, England.
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For economic reform especially helpful to family life, study the publications of the Cooeperative League of America, Doctor and Mrs.Warbasse, Directors, 70 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
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