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Volume 1 begins with the Commissioner of Education's introduction and includes state school-system statistics. Chapter I covers education in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Chapter II presents children's growth statistics collected in Worcester, Mass., Toronto, Ontario, and Milwaukee. Chapter III addresses German university pension and insurance beneficiary regulations. Chapter IV presents a digest of school laws on governance, teachers, and schools for each state except Florida, Idaho, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. Chapter V discusses the University of Paris during the Middle Ages. Chapter VI presents the proceedings of an Armstrong Association meeting on the work and influence of Hampton Institute, including a letter from former U.S. president Grover Cleveland and addresses by Andrew Carnegie, Harvard president Charles W. Eliot, Hampton principal H.B. Frissell, and Booker T. Washington. Chapter VII addresses public school temperance instruction and the liquor question, with reports from Connecticut, New York State, and Massachusetts, as well as information on Prussian temperance instruction. Chapter VIII presents early English writers' notices on education from 1578 to 1603. Subsequent chapters address German juvenile criminality; Southeastern Alaska's Hlingit language grammar and vocabulary; the Swedish education system; British and Irish education in 1903; and English higher education, i.e., secondary, technical, and evening schools, and the 1902 law requiring councils to support schools higher than elementary schools. Chapters XIV and XV cover education at the St. Louis Exposition, including state and territorial and educational institution exhibits. Chapter XVI discusses the final establishment of the American common school system in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia between 1863 and 1900. Chapter XVII reprints the Alaskan-education general agent's 1890 preliminary report and 1892 report on introducing domestic reindeer into Alaska. Chapter XVIII offers "A Definition of Civilization," the Indian Industrial School commencement address by W.T. Harris, and papers by Harris on "Art Education the True Industrial Education" and "The Intellectual Value of Tool Work." Chapter XIX is a list of U.S. education periodicals. Chapter XX is a directory of chief state school officers, city superintendents, college presidents, pedagogy professors and university and college pedagogy department heads, and normal-school principals. [For Volume 2, see ED620501.]

This is Volume 1 of the Report of the Commissioner of Education for the Year 1897-98, containing Part I. The volume begins with the Commissioner's Introduction and Statistics of State Common School Systems. Part I covers the topics: (1) History of the German School System; (2) Summer Schools in England, Scotland, France, and Switzerland; (3) Education in Great Britain and Ireland; (4) Education in Canada; (5) Systems of Public Education in Australia, New Zealand, and Tasmania; (6) Education in Central Europe; (7) Means for Spreading Hygienic Knowledge Among the People; (8) Report on European Textile Schools; (9) The International Congress on Technical Education; (10) Education in India; (11) Organization and Reconstruction of State Systems of Common School Education in the North Atlantic States from 1830 to 1865; (12) Physical Training; (13) Notes on the History of Foreign Influence upon Education in the United States; (14) Status of Woman from the Educational and Industrial Standpoint; (15) The Public School and the Public Library; (16) Education in France; (17) Notes on the History of American Text-books on Arithmetic; (18) The Teaching of Astronomy in the Primary and Secondary Schools and in the University; (19) Digest of Laws Relating to Text-books, Their Selection and Supply; (20) Education in Cuba, Porto Rico, and the Philippines; (21) Experimental Study of Children, including Anthropometrical and Psychophysical Measurements of Washington School Children; (22) Education in the Argentine Republic, Uruguay, and Brazil; (23) Dental Education in the United States; and (24) Educational Directory. [For "Report of the Commissioner of Education for the Year 1897-98. Volume 2. Containing Parts II and III," see ED622138.]

This bulletin on education in parts of the British Empire is presented in seven sections. The first section (by Walter A. Montgomery) describes educational developments in the Dominion of Canada and contains the following: (1) General educational activities; (2) The language issue; (3) Agricultural instruction; (4) Vocational work for returned soldiers; (5) The Dominion Educational Association; (6) The Maritime Provinces--Legislation; (7) Nova Scotia; (8) Prince Edward Island; (9) Quebec--Two-fold organization of public-school system; public interest; need of rural teachers; (10) Ontario--Superannuation act; school-attendance bill; effects of the war; continuation schools; industrial, technical, and agricultural education; (11) Manitoba--Democratic methods; advisory board; consolidation; attendance; teachers; high schools; the university; (12) Saskatchewan--Centralization of administration; survey of 1917; school-attendance act; short-term schools; agricultural instruction; teachers; health promotion; (13) Alberta--Graded and ungraded schools; school-attendance act; and (14) British Columbia--Rural high schools; school districts. The second section (by Charles E. Asbury) provides information on Jamaica: (1) Organization of the system; (2) Government grants; (3) Teachers; (4) Administration; (5) Curricula; (6) Industrial and technical training; and (7) Secondary education. Section three (by Theresa Bach) presents details of educational developments in Australia and New Zealand: (1) General features; (2) New South Wales; (3) Victoria; (4) Queensland; (5) Western Australia; (6) South Australia; and (7) New Zealand. The fourth section (by Theresa Bach) covers the Union of South Africa: (1) General features; (2) Language problem; (3) Secondary education; (4) Agricultural education; (5) Colleges and universities; (6) Education of non-Europeans. Section five (by Walter A. Montgomery) gives details on educational development in India, and covers the following topics: (1) Administration of the schools; (2) Secondary education; (3) Colleges and universities; (4) Technical, industrial, and agricultural education; (5) Education of girls; (6) Mohammedans; (7) Europeans; and (8) Training of teachers. Section six, on Egypt, is based upon the notes of the Ministry of Education on educational organization and policy, and provides information on: (1) Budget; (2) Primary schools; (3) Secondary schools; and (4) Higher colleges. The final section (by Theresa Bach) presents information on the educational developments of Jews in Palestine, as follows: (1) General development; (2) Secondary education; (3) Agricultural training; and (4) Establishment of a university. (Contains 4 footnotes.) [Best copy available has been provided.]

The educational surveys of which some account is given in this bulletin do not by any means represent all the foreign investigations that have been made; it is believed, however, that they will serve to acquaint American students of education with certain foreign types, and at the same time throw some light on the history of surveys and of progress in education. Foreign surveys differ from the American in point of authorization in that: (a) practically all are made under Government auspices and (b) the work is done either by: (1) a royal commission; (2) a select parliamentary committee; or (3) under the direction of a minister of education. The findings of the commissions, accordingly, carry with them the weight of Government authority: In the schools they are conclusive; and by the general public they are received with deference. The scope of the foreign survey is, in general, wider; it looks less to local conditions than the American survey. Even a slight examination of these reports will reveal the reason for the governmental interest in surveys; namely, international industrial competition, and the disclosure of the fact that industrial progress is dependent upon education. Contents of this bulletin include: (1) Letter of transmittal; (2) Introduction; (3) A Swiss survey; (4) English surveys; (5) Belgian surveys; (6) Scotch surveys; (7) Irish surveys; (8) German and Austrian surveys; (9) A French survey; (10) A survey of New South Wales; (11) A Swedish survey; (12) A New Zealand survey; and (13) A Canadian survey. (Contains 2 footnotes.) [Best copy available has been provided.]