Report of the Commissioner of Education Made to the Secretary of the Interior for the Year ... with Accompanying Papers, Volume 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1896 - Education |
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... PUPILS AND STUDENTS ... 3 CHAPTER II . - CONSOLIDATED STATISTICS OF STATE AND CITY COMMON SCHOOL SYSTEMS . -Stato school systems : Table 1. - Total population , school population , adult male population ... Table 2. - Relation of school ...
... PUPILS AND STUDENTS ... 3 CHAPTER II . - CONSOLIDATED STATISTICS OF STATE AND CITY COMMON SCHOOL SYSTEMS . -Stato school systems : Table 1. - Total population , school population , adult male population ... Table 2. - Relation of school ...
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... pupils and students , being an increase of 446,638 over the preceding year . A detailed classification of these pupils and students is given on pages 3 to 6. In addition , there were some 400,000 persons enrolled in various special ...
... pupils and students , being an increase of 446,638 over the preceding year . A detailed classification of these pupils and students is given on pages 3 to 6. In addition , there were some 400,000 persons enrolled in various special ...
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... pupils had increased to 3,835,593 , while the colored pupils had increased to 1,424,995 . The increase of white pupils for the eighteen years was 109 per cent , while that of the colored was 150 per cent . Twenty - three out of every ...
... pupils had increased to 3,835,593 , while the colored pupils had increased to 1,424,995 . The increase of white pupils for the eighteen years was 109 per cent , while that of the colored was 150 per cent . Twenty - three out of every ...
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... pupils living more than a mile away is not so great an item as the cost of furnishing teachers and school buildings for half a dozen pupils each . In the small rural school no classification can be attempted , and for the most part the ...
... pupils living more than a mile away is not so great an item as the cost of furnishing teachers and school buildings for half a dozen pupils each . In the small rural school no classification can be attempted , and for the most part the ...
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... pupils in elementary schools as against 20 per cent in 1887. The gain has been wholly in the church schools , which enrolled 20 per cent of the pupils at the later date as against 17 per cent at the earlier . The change is due chiefly ...
... pupils in elementary schools as against 20 per cent in 1887. The gain has been wholly in the church schools , which enrolled 20 per cent of the pupils at the later date as against 17 per cent at the earlier . The change is due chiefly ...
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