The Present Status of the Subnormal Class

Adapted from an address before The Council of Education of the State of New Jersey at Montclair, October 25, 1918, printed by the Council and reprinted here by its permission. The enforcement of compulsory education laws has laid a burden upon the public schools of the United States which involves many difficult problems. The public school system has been developed under a spirit of democracy which has not only demanded equal opportunity in free education for all children but in its earlier developments assumed that the type of education offered to all should be the same. There was little differentiation in the curriculum