Report of the Commissioner of Education Made to the Secretary of the Interior for the Year ... with Accompanying Papers, Volume 1, Part 1

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1896
 

Contents

PART I
1
Summary of statistics of school systems of cities containing over 8000 inhabitants showing
12
STATISTICAL REVIEW OF SECONDARY SCHOOLS
17
Students and studies
23
The endowed academies
32
Summary of statistics of public high schools
40
Summary of statistics of private secondary schools
48
Review of public high school statistics from 1890 to 1895
72
Review of private high school statistics from 1890 to 1895
89
General summary
107
Synopsis of courses in departments of pedagogy in certain universities and colleges
118
Summary of statistics of public normal schools
128
Summary of statistics of private normal schools 134 1
139
STATISTICAL REVIEW OF HIGHER EDUCATION
149
Summary of statistics of coeducational universities and colleges and in colleges for men only
155
Summary of degrees conferred on men by universities and colleges
164
Colleges for women Division B
175
Comparative statistics of higher education from 1890 to 1895
184
STATISTICAL REVIEW OF PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS
235
Comparative statistics of professional and allied schools from 1890 to 1895
242
General educational statistics
257
Recent movements relative to religious instruction and to public support for denominational
263
MANITOBA SCHOOL CASE
275
EDUCATION IN FRANCE
289
Subjects and courses of instruction
296
Summary of proceedings of the Educational Congress at Havre in 1895
303
PUBLIC EDUCATION IN BELGIUM
313
School law of 1895
319
EDUCATION IN CENTRAL EUROpe
321
Is German education in a state of decomposition?Translation of an article by Dr Fr Dittes
329
Supplementary and industrial schools in Germany
345
Rural or ungraded schools in Germany
380
German opinions on the BellLancaster method of mutual instruction
403
Normal schools in Switzerland
426
Mental fatigue in school
449
National features of female education
460
Public instruction in the Grand Dutchy of Luxemburg
471
Historical sketch
477
Superintendence of primary schools
486
Income and expenditures
500
Secondary instruction
507
Secondary schools for girls
514
Superior instruction State universities
527
EDUCATION IN ITALY
543
Superior instruction
552
The schools of Leghorn in 1893
564
List of scientific and professional organizations
576
REPORT OF THE ROYAL COMMISSION ON SECONDARY EDUCATION
583
The registration of teachers
589
Answers sent by teachers in Ontario to a circular of the Royal British Commission on secondary
673
Memorandum on the training of teachers in England
679
Training of teachers of secondary schools in France 635
685
Memorandum upon the registration and training of teachers in secondary schools in the States
698
Memorandum by Mr M E Sadler on the leaving examination as conducted in the secondary
708
Plan and arrangement
717
Language
723
Higher education of Russian Poland
743
Higher education in Austrian Poland
765
Education in the ancient Polish provinces of Prussia
785
CHAPTER XVI
793
FACILITIES FOR THE UNIVERSITY EDUCATION OF WOMEN IN ENGLAND
805
Examinations
811
The second public examination
818
Methods of study
830
Position of women
837
Lady Margaret Hall
845
Women at the University of Cambridge
853
Methods of study
865
Girton College
869
Newnham College
877
University and college
885
Other universities in Great Britain that admit women
891
Gradual development of the woman movement
903
School legislation in the United States with reference to women
960
School legislation abroad
965
Selected books and articles on womans development
970
CHAUTAUQUA A SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL STUDY
977
Chautauqua salute religious clubhouses 281
985
Food and other supplies
992
The general programme 939
999
Offices buildings and organization
1007
Circulation and use of books
1008
Prison work
1015
Opinions of the C L S C
1021
Correspondence system
1029
The teachers retreat
1035
School of penmanship and business
1042
Womans work at Chautauqua
1050
The Chautauquan The Assembly Herald 1037
1058
The Catholic Summer School of America
1065
PENSIONS FOR TEACHERS
1079
Pensions in Philadelphia Pa
1086
New York pension law 1033
1100
Comments of the press
1108
COEDUCATIONCOMPULSORY ATTENDANCEAMERICAN STUDENTS IN FOR
1115
American students in foreign universities
1123
College presidents
1135
Principals of public normal schools
1144

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