Nursing in America 169 Education and the local, state, and national branches of the American Nurses' Association in all matters of general professional, interest, but the Leagues are of course especially concerned with educational development and with administrative and teaching problems in nursing schools. The National League publishes its own report each year and also issues a number of other publi- cations including the Standard Curriculum for Nursing Schools which is used extensively as a guide and help in developing a better system of nursing education throughout the country. The recent campaign for shorter hours in nursing schools was inaugurated by this organization. It is also at work on a plan for grading or classifying the nursing schools of the country. The League hopes in this way to help prospective nursing students to discriminate between the poorer and better schools and also to stimulate weak schools to strengthen their educational work. This organization has done a great deal to foster and encourage the higher education of niirses through colleges and universities and to bring a better educated group of women into nursing schools. Many other progressive policies are being dis- cussed and worked out by it and by its state and local branches.
