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
 

Contents

General remarks 1368
5
Tables and diagrams showing the progress of the common schools of the United States since 1870
9
Letter transmitting the report to the Commissioner of Education 753
10
Preliminary remarks 671
17
Seating capacity of schoolhouses Table 8 681
23
CHAPTER IIA COMPARISON OF THE SCHOOLS OF THE UNITED STATES GERMANY AND FRANCE
32
Contract schools 756
35
Statistics of schools in America
43
Summary of comparative statistics
49
CHAPTER IIIDETAILED VIEW OF THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM OF ENGLAND
78
Statistics of elementary schools England and Wales 188889
84
Subjects of instruction
91
Organization of schools
97
Training colleges
103
Chronological table
109
The councils
115
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
Page
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 213
243
General features of the school system
249
School management and methods of discipline
256
NAME REGISTER
263
Alabama 699
265
THE INCEPTION AND PROGRESS OF THE NORMAL SCHOOL CURRICULUM
273

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Page 448 - The time or times during which any religious observance is practised, or instruction in religious subjects is given at any meeting of the school, shall be either at the beginning or at the end, or at the beginning and the end of such meeting, and shall be inserted in a...
Page 103 - ... that all reasonable care is taken, in the ordinary management of the school, to bring up the children in habits of punctuality, of good manners and language, of cleanliness and neatness, and also to impress upon the children the importance of cheerful obedience to duty, of consideration and respect for others, and of honour and truthfulness in word and act.
Page 523 - ... that his bodily or mental condition has been such as to prevent his attendance at school or application to study for the period required...
Page 443 - No money raised for the support of the public schools of the Commonwealth shall be appropriated to, or used for the support of, any sectarian school.
Page 105 - It shall not be required, as a condition of any child being admitted into or continuing in the school, that he shall attend or abstain from attending any Sunday school, or any place of religious worship...
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