REPORT

OF THE

COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION

FOR

THE YEAR 1888-89.

M. S, Bureau of education.

VOLUME I.

CONTAINING

PART I. Chapters I to X-A General and Comparative Exhibit of
Education in the United States and Foreign Countries..

PART II.-Chapters XI to XXI-Normal Schools, Manual Training,
Courses of Study, etc.

OHIO STATE
UNIVERSITY

WASHINGTON:

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.

PART I.-GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE EXHIBIT OF EDUCATION IN
THE UNITED STATES AND FOREIGN COUNTRIES.

CHAPTER I.-GENERAL STATISTICAL EXHIBIT OF EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES.

A-Grand total of pupils......

B.-Grand total of expenditures...

Summary of statistics of the common schools...

8

Tables and diagrams showing the progress of the common schools of the United States since 1870.

Population..

9

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CHAPTER II.-A COMPARISON OF THE SCHOOLS OF THE UNITED STATES, GERMANY, AND FRANCE.

Distinctive features of American and German schools..

82

Statistics of the schools of Prussia....

84

Other items of interest concerning the people's schools in Prussia.

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