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Specialist in Education. W. Carson Ryan, Jr., Professor of Education, Swarthmore College.
Education: A. B., Harvard (1907); Columbia University (1907–10); Ph. D., George Washington University (1918).
Positions held: Nutley, New Jersey, High School, Teacher of Languages (1909–10); Private tutor (1910–11); University of Wisconsin, instructor (1911–12); United States Bureau of Education, successively assistant editor, editor, and specialist (1912–20); New York Evening Post, Educational Editor (1920–21); Swarthmore College, Professor of Education (1921–28). Also Lecturer on Education, summer schools of George Washington University (1915–18); University of Pittsburgh (1923); University of Pennsylvania (1924); Extension course for teachers, Woolman School and Pennsylvania State College (1924–26); School and Society, Associate Editor (1921–27); National Vocational Guidance Association, Secretary (1915–18), President (1926–27); British Educational Mission to the United States, Secretary (1918); Federal Employees’ Union, Local No. 2, Washington, President (1919–20); National Education Association, Editorial Council, member (1923–28), Chairman (1927). Participated in many educational surveys, Province of Saskatchewan, Canada, vocational education and statistics (1916–17), District of Columbia School administration (1924), Porto Rico, secondary schools (1925–26); Newark, New Jersey, all year schools (1926), Friends’ schools elementary and secondary (1924–26), Carnegie Foundation, study of school and college athletics (1926–27); also editorial services on numerous state, local, and other surveys while in the U. S. Bureau of Education.
Publications: Various bulletins of the United States Bureau of Education and Chapters in annual report of the Commissioner of Education (1913–1923) including Vocational Guidance in the Public Schools (1918); numerous articles on education in School Life, School and Society, New York Evening Post and Journal of the National Education Association; survey reports, especially on secondary schools in Porto Rico (International Institute of Teachers’ College) (1926) and on all year Schools of Newark, N. J. (Newark Board of Education) (1926), Annual reviews of education in the United States, originally in Report of the United States Commissioner of Education, later in the American Year