Report of the Commissioner of Education Made to the Secretary of the Interior for the Year ... with Accompanying Papers, Volume 1

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1905 - Education

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Contents

STATISTICS OF STATE SCHOOL SYSTEMS
lxxvii
Average daily attendance
lxxxv
School moneys received
xcii
Permanent school funds
cvii
Introductory The children of the poor in our great cities
2
The children of the poor in our great cities 245
5
Attendance
9
Needs of our American cities
12
Activities of school playgrounds
16
Activities of school playgrounds
19
Social conditions in the playground
22
Psychology of play
26
History of the movement
28
Activities of settlements
34
GRANT COLLEGES
39
Maryland
45
Massachusetts
54
Michigan
67
Minnesota
74
References
83
Montana
100
Nevada
109
New Jersey
119
Results
124
New Mexico
127
New York
133
North Carolina
139
ED 19031 1
145
North Dakota
148
Oklahoma
161
Oregon
168
Pennsylvania
174
South Carolina
181
South Dakota
187
Tennessee
193
Vermont
202
Washington
210
III
216
Wisconsin
217
EDUCATION IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND 1903
227
Present outlook continued opposition to the law of 1902
234
Criticism of the law by Doctor Macnamara James Bryce and others
241
Retrospective tables
247
Secondary and technical education
253
Education in Ireland
262
EDUCATION IN LONDON UNDER THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE LONDON
273
Subjects of instruction
280
Compulsory school attendance
286
AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES BY CHARLES F THWING LL D
293
Ecclesiastical private and public foundations
299
Education of women
306
Relation of the university to government and society
312
NOTICES OF SOME EARLY ENGLISH WRITERS ON EDUCATION 15531574
319
Sir Nicholas Bacon 15101579
327
Gulielmus Gratarolus 15101562
334
THE FINAL ESTABLISHMENT OF THE AMERICAN COMMON SCHOOL SYSTEM
391
Notes on the superintendents reports
398
Establishment of the common school in Maryland
405
Influence of the city of Baltimore on education in Maryland
419
Delaware
453
CHAPTER X
463
J L M CURRY AND HIS SERVICES TO EDUCATION IN THE SOUTH
521
Education in the Southern States an address by Hon J L M Curry
548
From the Revolution to the civil war
558
Current movements and problems
564
Page
585
The primary schools
594
The official programme of moral instruction in the primary schools
601
National industrial schools
617
CONSULAR REPORTS ON EDUCATION
623
Industrial schools in Germany
631
Trade schools in Germany
637
Mr Moseleys industrial inquiry
647
Commercial and industrial education in England
653
Educational system of Liberia
660
CHAPTER XV
669
CHAPTER XVI
689
CHAPTER XVII
721
PUBLIC SOCIETY AND SCHOOL LIBRARIES
759
Public society and school libraries in the United States of 1000 volumes and over in 1903
780
MANUAL INDUSTRIAL AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION IN THE UNITED
1019
Teacher of tool work
1026
Drawing and domestic science
1032
Suggestions and warnings
1040
Te dignity and worth of engineering
1046
Local circumstances a determining factor in the conduct of schools
1052
Influence of high schools in promoting coeducation
1054
Progress of coeducation in colleges and universities
1063
Women in graduate and professional departments
1071
THE CATHOLIC PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS OF THE UNITED STATES By
1079
A growing demand for the religious element in education
1085
Perfecting the parochial system
1091
Catholic teachers institutes
1098
Introductory
1104
General object
1110
Control of State normal schools
1132
Universities and collegestheir religious control
1138
Development of American college coursessubjects offered at periods named
1145
Colleges of agriculture and the mechanic arts
1151
Secondary education in the United States
1157
Commercial education in the United States
1158
Amount of schooling received by each individualpublic school income and expenditure
1165
Education in Alaska
1171
Graduates of public normal schools
1177
Secondary school course approved by committee of ten
1183
EDUCATIONAL DIRECTORY
1189
Presidents of colleges for men and of coeducational colleges of liberal arts
1201
Presidents of colleges for women
1207
Principals of private normal schools
1214

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