INDEX.

REPORT OF BOARD OF EDUCATION AND OF ITS SECRETARY.

Abstract of School Reports, 61.

Agents of the Board, 8, 35.

Attendance upon Public Schools increased, 31.

Board of Education, Report of, 5.

Agents of, 8, 35.

Bridgewater Normal School, 6, 17.

Report of Visitors of, 17.

Dictionaries furnished to public schools, 32.

Framingham Normal School, 6, 13.

Report of Visitors of, 13.

Normal Schools, 5.

appropriations for, 6.

influence of, upon teachers and schools, 67.

circular to obtain information respecting, 67, et seq.

answers of school committees concerning, 67, et seq.

Primary Schools, methods of teaching, 58, et seq. (See Abstracts of School Reports, especially of Boston and Lawrence.)

Report of Board of Education.

Visitors of the Normal School at Framingham, 13.

Westfield, 14.
Bridgewater, 17.
Salem, 20.

Treasurer of the Board, 24.

Secretary of the Board, 31.

Salem Normal Schools, 6, 20.

Report of Visitors of, 20.

School Committees Reports, preservation of, 37, printing of them should be required by law, 37. School Fund, 11.

origin and history of. 38, et seq.

usefulness of, 42, et seq.

amount of, 45.

importance of increasing it, 45, et seq; reasons for increasing it 53, et seq.

effect of, in securing information concerning public schools, 46, et seq.
value of statistics obtained by it, 51.

School Reports, extracts from, and importance of, 56.

relate to studies and methods of teaching, 56. (See Abstracts of School Committees' Reports.)

Abstract of, 61, et seq.

Schools, Public, progress and statistics of, 9, 32; attendance increased, 31.
Secretary of Board of Education; Report of, 31, labors of, 35.

State Scholarships, 7.

Studies and methods of teaching, 56, et seq. (See Abstracts of School Reports.)

Teachers' Associations, 9.

Teachers' Institutes, 7, 35.

lecturers in connection with, 35.

number of, when held, and attendance, 36.
instructors of, 36.

Teaching, methods of, 56, et seq. (See Abstract of School Reports.)
in relation to health, 56; in primary schools, 58; et seq.

Tables, graduated, 1st series, showing the sum appropriated for each child between 5 and 15, xliii. 2d series, showing the ratio of the valuation of the towns to their appropriations, lxi. 3d series, showing the ratio of the mean average attendance to the number of children in each town between 5 and 15, 1xxiv.