3. EARLY PLUSES AND MINUSES TO PROGRESS 1924-1934.

The article discusses the challenges faced by the Council for Exceptional Children, a professional association for people involved in the education of exceptional children in the United States. The council's past presidents include Elizabeth E. Farrell, Alice B. Metzner, Charles M. Elliott, Edith L. Groves, and John Louis Horn. The council had succeeded in affiliating with the National Education Association in 1924, and then with the World Federation of Education Associations in 1928. The council's first publication was the "News Letter on the International Council for the Education of Exceptional Children" with Eleanor Gray as its first editor until its demise on October 1932. The council failed to develop the convention during the 1920s and early 1930s into the growing and increasingly attractive educational event that it should have been.