Iraq, where they visited schools in the Baghdad and Basra areas before hosting a conference on education in the nation's capital and publishing their findings in the Monroe Report to the Government of Iraq. Monroe was accompanied by his doctoral student Muhammad Fadil al-Jamali, who contributed a chapter from his dissertation, New Iraq, to the Monroe Report, and also acted as interpreter for the expedition. His contributions to the study of education also gave Dr. Monroe an international reputation, and his textbooks have helped to give the subject a position of great importance in the United States. He was the President of Robert College of Istanbul between 1932-1935. His greatest contribution was as editor-in-chief of the massive and wide-ranging Encyclopedia of Education, in five volumes (1910–13). Works He authored: Source Book in the History of Education for the Greek and Roman Period (1901) A Text-Book in the History of Education (1905) Brief Course in the History of Education (1907) (1911-1913). 5 vols: v.1: A-Chrysos (1911); v.2: Church-Fusion (1911); v.3 (1912); v.4: Liberal-Polyhedron; v.5: Poly-Z + "Analytical indexes" (1913) Principles of Secondary Education (1914) Legacy There are many elementary and middle schools across the country now named after him. See also The Inquiry Notes References 1869 births 1947 deaths American lexicographers University of Chicago alumni Heidelberg University alumni Columbia University faculty Franklin College (Indiana) alumni People from Madison, Indiana American historians of education