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The Harvard Growth Study is unique and it is of exceptional important to the science of education and to every form of practical effort for the benefit of children. It consists of repeated measurements of the same children throughout the 12 years of their schooling by all the main, standardized...
The work was begun in the fall of 1921, and is therefore in its ninth year. The first measurements were made on a group of several thousand children shortly after their entrance into school. These children have been measured each succeeding year, and it is the intention of the investigators...
Professor W. F. Dearborn, of the graduate School of Education, conceived the idea of the study and has directed it from the beginning. It was supported in 1921-22 and 1922-23 by the commonwealth Fund, which granted $16,000 in each of these years to the Harvard Graduate School...
The new gift will be of great assistance to the Graduate School in its new program, under which it has raised and substantially changed its requirements for the degrees of Master of Education and Doctor of Education. The removal of the expense of supporting the Growth Study out of its...
Among the more important of these activities are researches by Professor Dearborn and his associates in the Laboratory of Educational Psychology on the processes and mechanisms of reading. Defects in reading may result form wrong habits established in early years and may prevent the attainment of normal speed in reading...