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, 1891 - Education

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Contents

Introduction 378
lv
GENERAL STATISTICAL EXHIBIT OF EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES
1
General remarks 1368
5
Summary of statistics of the common schools
8
Letter transmitting the report to the Commissioner of Education 753
10
Preliminary remarks 671
17
Seating capacity of schoolhouses Table 8 9681
23
A COMPARISON OF THE SCHOOLS OF THE UNITED STATES GERMANY AND FRANCE
32
Contract schools 756
35
Criticism of the American schools
43
Summary of comparative statistics
49
Causes of rapid advancement in studies
59
Typical courses of study for Prussian middle schools
66
Graphic presentation of education in Europe and America
75
Secondary schools
81
The teaching force
88
Organization of schools
97
The societies formed by teachers and officers
108
Central administration
114
NORMAL SCHOOLS MANUAL TRAINING SCHOOLS COURSES
117
Receipts from public funds 1408
121
Professors of secondary and superior instruction
124
Organization and management of schools
131
Institutions for superior instruction
140
Private universities
146
Finances
153
Instruction
159
Variety in school organization in Germany Austria Hungary and Switzerland
165
Courses of study
172
Memorable dates
178
Introductory statement
182
Courses of study
189
EDUCATION IN SWEDEN AND FINLAND
196
Supervision and administration
202
School management and methods of discipline
212
THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM OF FINLAND
222
School management and methods of discipline
229
EDUCATION IN SPAIN
236
Secondary instruction
243
General features of the school system
249
School management and methods of discipline
256
Proportion of women in the teaching corps 825
325
Remarks on the table 1440
326
Proportion of inexperienced teachers 831
331
Literary attainments of the teaching corps 387
337
PROFESSIONAL WORK IN THE NORMAL SCHOOLS OF THE UNITED STATES
347
Additional rules issued by the Bureau of Education 758
353
Theoretical and practical training of teachers in Germany 806
366
CITY SCHOOL SYSTEMS
373
Character of elementary training
374
Natural science 880
380
Montana 729
390
Number of hours devoted to each branch of study in city schools Table 1 888
396
MANUAL AND INDUSTRIAL TRAINING
411
No distinction possible between pedagogic and manual training branches
417
Trade or handicraft schools
423
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS
429
New Mexico 734
433
Substance of an address on coeducation delivered before the sixth Scandinavian school confer
464
COMPULSORY ATTENDANCE LAWS
470
New York
498
Remarks upon the statistical tables 765
507
STATE TEXTBOOK LAWS AND SYSTEMS
532
New York 735
543
Maine
548
Mississippi
555
મા ને માં અક્ષાંશ માં નાખ Ohio 787
565
Texas
567
POWERS OF CITY SCHOOL BOARDS WITH REGARD TO SCHOOL SITES AND BUILDINGS
579
Nevada
584
DISCUSSIONS OF EDUCATIONAL QUESTIONS CHIEFLY BY SCHOOL OFFICIALS
588
Education and crime
600
Rhode Island
601
Private and parochial schools
611
South Carolina
618
Revenue and taxation
634
New normal schools 953
640
Township system
642
B FELLOWSHIPS IN COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES
649
Summary of students in private secondary schools preparing for colleges and scientific schools
652
CHAPTER XXI
655
Nine systems of teaching economy
664

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