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THE United States Bureau of Education has recently employed Prof. Charles K, Wead, A.M., Acting Professor of Physics at the University of Michigan, to draw up a set of inquiries respecting the teaching of physics and to collate and discuss the answers received. The results of his labours are now before us in a rather unusually lengthy circular issued by the Bureau. They are drawn from seventy replies to a set of questions sent to a selection made by the Commissioner of Education of masters of schools of various grades in the United States, compared also with information gathered from England and other countries. A table at the end showing as clearly as can be done in a word or two under each heading the tendency of each answer, makes it easy to see the points of difference and the correspondents who differ.
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"Circular of Information," No. 7, 1884, of the U.S. Bureau of Education. (Washington, 1884.)
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ODELL, W. Aims and Methods of the Teaching of Physics 1 . Nature 31, 578–580 (1885). https://doi.org/10.1038/031578g0
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