It is a significant fact in the history of political instruction that the American Political Science Association and the National Municipal League should be making a simultaneous effort to investigate the content, method, and proportion of such instruction, with a view to offering definite and helpful suggestions to teachers of the subject. And that at the same time the National Educational Association, through its committee on social studies, unwilling to wait for further data, has begun to sketch out for the secondary school a program of economic and civic instruction combined that shall mark a radical departure from the formal textbook course in government. Dr. Haines will tell you of your own committee's work, and Mr. Dunn of that of the Municipal League's committee, for the two are now coöperating. I shall avail myself of the National Educational Association preliminary report as a point of departure for this paper.