REPORT

OF THE

COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION

FOR

THE YEAR 1890-'91.

VOLUME 1.

CONTAINING PART I.

WASHINGTON:

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.

BUREAU OF EDUCATION.

Created as a Department March 2, 1867.

Made an Office of the Interior Department July 1, 1869.

COMMISSIONERS.

HENRY BARNARD, LL. D.,

March 14, 1867, to March 15, 1870.

JOHN EATON, PH. D., LL. D.,

March 16, 1870, to August 5, 1886.

NATHANIEL H. R. DAWSON, L. H. D.,

August 6, 1886, to September 3, 1889.

WILLIAM T. HARRIS, LL. D.,

September 12, 1889, to date.

Table 1.-Total population, school population, and adult male population....

Table 2.-School enrollment and its relation to the number of children 5 to 18 years of age..

Remarks on enrollment.

Table 3. Average attendance and its relation to enrollment..

Table 4.-Aggregate number of days' schooling given; length of school term..

1

3

7

9

12

13

Table 9.

Amount raised per taxpayer; amount raised for cach child of the school population;

number of taxpayers to school population.

Table 10.-Percentage classification of school receipts.

Receipts of school moneys

Table 11.-Growth of expenditure since 1870-'71

Table 12.-School expenditures, 1890–91..

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Table 13.-Expenditure per pupil, percentage classification of school expenditure..

Table 14.-Expenditure per pupil per month..

Remarks on school expenditure..

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32

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Table showing total number of pupils and students in each grade of schools

Brief conspectus of the State system of education and operations in 1890-'91..

Progress of primary schools since Guizot's law, 1833. Translation from La Population Fran-

çaise par E. Levasseur

95

100

Higher primary and classical schools of France.

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CHAPER IV-BRIEF VIEW OF THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS OF ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND, AND OPERA-