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, 1914
 

Contents

High schools are assuming college work also
74
Coordination lacking in science and in language
80
Advantages of a lengthened school day
86
A new era of professional administration
93
Measuring the schools efficiency
100
Professional investigations
106
The consulting psychologist
116
Classification and promotion
136
FIVE YEARS OF KINDERGARTEN PROGRESS
147
Causes of growth
153
Standard rural schools
168
The ruralschool term
174
Rural high schools
180
Pupils reading circles
188
Community and school improvement associations
194
Rural education surveys and investigations
202
PROGRESS OF AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION IN 191213
211
Educational work of the Department of Agriculture
217
Agricultural education in educational conventions
227
Life experience of workmens sons
235
Universities and colleges which offer courses in commerce
241
Extension work in commercial subjects
247
Vocational guidance
256
Training of teachers for vocational education
261
Industrial education under State supervision in Pennsylvania
273
Fine art
281
Popular education in fine art
287
EDUCATIONAL WORK OF AMERICAN MUSEUMS
299
Museum cooperation with public schools
305
Museum cooperation in industrial training
311
Package libraries
318
Efficiency records and pensions
325
The public library in the commission form of government
331
ROMAN CATHOLIC PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS
343
Extent of schools
349
Standardization of high schools
356
59
362
The Russian migration
368
Jewish education now a complicated problem
377
Difficulties peculiar to New York City
378
Financial cooperation
384
The problem of teachers
390
Means of support
396
Statistics of schools and attendance in the various synods
402
THE SCHOOLS OF THE MORMON CHURCH
409
THE METHODS AND MEANS OF HEALTH TEACHING IN THE UNITED STATES
415
Federal health service
421
Cleanliness
427
Rural sanitation
433
The judges personality is the essential consideration
484
Institutions for delinquents
491
PROGRESS OF TEACHER TRAINING
499
Teachers colleges in endowed institutions
514
The smaller colleges
523
State departments of education
538
Summer schools
545
EDUCATIONAL BOARDS FOUNDATIONS AND ASSOCIATIONS
553
Educational associationsContinued Page
567
Brief history
573
Supervision and administration
581
MOTION PICTURES AS AN AID TO EDUCATION
587
Obstacles to the use of films in schools
593
SCHOOLS CONDUCTED BY THE UNITED STATES Government
599
Educational agencies of the United States Navy
621
Education of natives of Alaska 32
632
The reindeer service
641
Education in the Philippine Islands 191213
647
Canal Zone
666
Samoa
672
EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES IN CANADA
679
Current statistics
685
EDUCATION IN THE LATINAMERICAN STATES
693
Panama
699
States of South AmericaContinued Page
707
Institutions for higher education in States of South America
714
Scotland
741
Education in Ireland
752
CURRENT EDUCATIONAL MOVEMENTS IN SWEDEN
763
Legislation
769
Norway
775
Belgium
780
CURRENT EDUCATIONAL MOVEMENTS IN FRANCE AND SWITZERLAND
787
Switzerland
808
Continuation schools
816
The universities
822
AUSTRIAHUNGARY
831
EDUCATIONAL MOVEMENTS IN SOUTHERN EUROPE
837
Portugal
843
The kingdoms of southeastern Europe
851
Agricultural education
857
Page
861
AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND
887
EVENTS OF INTERNATIONAL INTEREST
893
EDUCATIONAL LEGISLATION IN 1913
901
Vocational education
907
High schools and teachertraining
913
INDEX
919

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