The Temperance Educational Quarterly was published by the Department of Scientific Temperance Instruction of the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU). The magazine provided scripts for students and teachers to use on Willard day, printed pledges for pupils to sign, presented quotations on the dangers of alcohol, featured prize-winning student essays, printed stories about the horrible consequences of drinking, and provided detailed lesson plans for teaches.
The editor of the periodical, which was published from 1910 to 1917, was Edith Smith Davis.