Search

Volume II of the Commissioner's report includes statistics and discussion on state common-school systems; city school systems; universities, colleges, and technological schools; agricultural and mechanical colleges; professional schools; normal schools; summer schools; public and private high schools; manual and industrial training; commercial and business schools; schools for negroes; state industrial schools; schools for the blind and for the deaf; schools for the feeble-minded; and elementary education in foreign countries. [For Volume I, see ED620983.]

Volume II includes statistics and discussion on state common-school systems; public school retirement-allowance systems; city school systems; universities, colleges, and technological schools; agricultural and mechanical colleges; professional schools; public and private normal schools; summer schools; Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) education work; public and private high schools; manual and industrial training; commercial and business schools; schools for negroes; state industrial schools; schools for the blind and for the deaf; schools for the feeble-minded; and elementary education in foreign countries. [For Volume I, see ED620985.]

Volume II includes statistics and discussion on state common-school systems; city school systems; universities, colleges, and technological schools; agricultural and mechanical colleges; professional schools; public and private normal schools; summer schools; public and private high schools; commercial and business schools; schools for negroes; state industrial schools; schools for the blind and for the deaf; and schools for the feeble-minded. [For Volume I, see ED620988.]

Volume II of the Commissioner of Education's report presents statistics and discussion on state common-school systems; city school systems; universities, colleges, and technological schools; agricultural and mechanical colleges; professional schools; normal schools; secondary schools; manual and industrial training; commercial and business schools; schools for the colored race; reform schools, schools for the blind and for the deaf; schools for the feeble-minded; foreign elementary education; and Alaskan education including the reindeer service. [For the Volume I, see ED620903.]

Volume II presents data and discussion on state-common school systems; city school systems; universities, colleges, and technological schools; agricultural and mechanical colleges; professional schools; normal schools; summer schools; public and private high schools; manual and industrial training; commercial and business schools; schools for negroes; state industrial schools; schools for the blind and for the deaf; schools for the feeble-minded; foreign elementary education; and Alaskan education including the reindeer service. [For Volume I, see ED620905.]

Volume II of the Commissioner of Education's report presents discussion and statistics on state common-school systems; city school systems; universities, colleges, and technological schools; agricultural and mechanical colleges; professional schools; normal schools; secondary schools; manual and industrial training; commercial and business schools; schools for the colored race; reform schools; schools for the blind and for the deaf; schools for the feeble-minded; foreign elementary education; and Alaskan education. A statistical summary is included. [For Volume I, see ED620727.]

Chapter XXI of volume 2 covers St. Louis Exposition presentations by U.S. colleges and universities, while Chapter XXII includes foreign countries' presentations. Subsequent chapters provide discussion and statistics on length of teachers' service; city school systems; universities, colleges, and technological schools; agricultural and mechanical colleges; professional education; normal schools; secondary schools; manual and industrial training; commercial and business schools; nursing schools; schools for the colored race; reform schools; schools for the defective classes, including the blind, deaf, and feeble-minded; and Alaskan education. Chapter XXXVII current topics include compulsory attendance and child-labor laws, school consolidation and pupil transportation, free textbooks and supplies, public school temperance instruction, teachers' pensions, corporal punishment, coeducation, women in school administration, European higher commercial education, U.S. city school boards' legal status, school children's vaccination requirements in certain U.S. cities, 1903-04 school and college enrollment, U.S. teachers in 1903-04, denominational religious schools across education sectors including orphan asylums, North American Sunday schools, U.S. social settlements, the Carnegie Institution, foreign students in German institutions of higher education, Nobel prizes for scientific and benevolent discoveries, Cuban education, attendance at Central European seats of higher learning, foreign countries' elementary education, Argentine Republic regulations for U.S. professional school graduates, education benefactions, city teachers' salaries, and 1904 foreign institutions of higher education. Chapter XXXIX miscellaneous education topics include essays on the measure of a teacher' efficiency, the college woman, old and new teaching methods, Argentine practical and industrial education, and Sir Isaac Pitman and his services to phonography. [For Volume 1, see ED620500.]

Volume 2 covers discussion and data on agricultural and mechanical colleges; professional schools, with requirements for medical and dental practice; normal schools; secondary schools; manual and industrial training; commercial and business schools; nursing schools; schools for the colored race; reform schools; and schools for the defective classes, including the blind, deaf, and feeble-minded. [For Volume 1, see ED620502.]

Volume 2 covers Puerto Rican education; Alaskan education; the 12th annual report on the introduction of domestic reindeer into Alaska (ED613561); city school statistics; information and statistics on universities, colleges, technological schools, professional schools, agricultural and mechanical colleges, normal schools, secondary schools, manual and industrial training, commercial and business schools, nursing schools, education of the colored race, reform schools, and schools for the defective classes including the blind, deaf, and feeble-minded. Chapter XLVI presents a statistical report on public school students with defective sight and hearing. Chapter XLVII addresses education of the feeble-minded in the United States, with discussion of several schools and institutions for feeble-minded children, youth, and women, as well as public school courses. Subsequent chapters cover changes in college-graduation age, the National Education Association superintendence committee school statistics report, education in the Philippines, public and private kindergartens, and U.S. illiteracy. Chapter LIII's current topics include compulsory attendance and child labor laws, school consolidation and pupil transportation, teachers' pensions, foreign students in German universities, higher commercial education, certain cities' school officer and instructional supervisor salaries, corporal punishment, public school temperance instruction, education benefactions, coeducation, free textbooks, Cuban and Mexican education, Japanese school, library, book, and periodical statistics, the General Education Board, education as a factor in success, Tulane University's founder's day celebration, religious exercises in public schools, and foreign countries' elementary education statistics. [For Volume 1, see ED620498.]

Part 1 of the education directories for 1919 and 1920 includes U.S. Department of Interior government educational activities. The contents include various government departments and independent establishments including the Library of Congress and the Commission of Fine Arts. Part 2 describes public school systems. The contents include principal state school officers, executive officers of state boards of education, county and other local superintendents of schools, and superintendents of public schools in cities and towns. Part 3 describes higher education and training of teachers. Contents include presidents of universities, presidents of junior colleges, directors and deans for various schools within universities, and principals of normal and kindergarten training schools. Part 4 describes special schools. Contents include superintendents for schools for the blind, deaf, and feeble-minded. Part 5 describes summer school directors of universities, colleges, and normal schools. Part 6 lists information for libraries and museums. Contents include librarians for public and society libraries, state library commissions, directors of library schools, and directors of museums. Part 7 describes miscellaneous educational organizations. Contents include boards and foundations of church education, superintendents of Catholic and Jewish organizations, international and American educational associations, women's clubs, and educational periodicals.

Influential historic documents in American education are presented in Chapter I, including legislation, land grants for common schools and universities and for agricultural and mechanical colleges, Bureau of Education role, early discussion on establishing a national university, and state constitutions' education provisions. Also included are the report of the Committee of Ten on Secondary School Studies and related papers in Chapter II, and a section on the National Education Association's (NEA) history, organization, and function in Chapter III. A catalogue of NEA papers and addresses since founding is included. Character of and facilities for negro education is addressed in Chapter IV, covering cost, the largely elementary nature of negro education, increasing attention to industrial education, negro education's teaching force, professional training, and institutional statistics for 1892-93. Chapter V covers pecuniary aid for university and college students in U.S. colleges, universities, and women's colleges; English universities; France, and Germany. Chapter VI discusses university extension programs. Chapter VII concerns medical education, including raising its standards, course, lengthening, clinical instruction, students with degrees, women in medicine, higher medical education, and German and American medical students. Education condition in 17 states, the District of Columbia, and Hawaii is covered in discussion and data. A list of notable deaths during the year in the education field is included. Statistical tables cover: school population, attendance, instruction, leadership, and facilities in cities with upwards of 8,000 population; public school receipts and expenditures for those cities; cities with unavailable school data; public high schools; endowed academies, seminaries, and other private secondary schools; universities and colleges; Division A and B women's colleges; agricultural and mechanical colleges; agricultural and mechanical colleges for colored students; receipts and expenditures of funds benefitting colored students in agricultural and mechanical colleges; scientific schools and technology institutes; schools of theology, law, medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, veterinary medicine, and nursing; public and private normal schools; university and college normal students; commercial and business colleges; state institutions for the deaf; public day and private schools for the deaf; state institutions for the blind; state institutions and private schools for the feeble-minded; reform schools; and foreign countries' public elementary education. [For "Report of the Commissioner of Education for the Year 1893-94. Volume 1. Containing Part I," see ED622073.]

Volume II includes statistics and discussion on state common-school systems; city school systems; universities, colleges, and technological schools; agricultural and mechanical colleges; professional schools; public and private normal schools; summer schools; public and private high schools; commercial and business schools; schools for negroes; state industrial schools; schools for the blind and for the deaf; and schools for the feeble-minded. [For Volume I, see ED621144.]

Volume 2 of the Commissioner's report includes a chapter on education and crime, which considers the relationship between crime and education with statistics included. The Canadian education chapter discusses the public education system, universities, current issues, technical and industrial education, and a section on Ontario education. Chapter 30, titled "[Tulane University President] William Preston Johnston's Work for a New South," covers Johnston's career at Louisiana State University and Tulane University, including his support for women's education at Tulane. Chapter 31 presents General Agent of Alaskan Education Sheldon Jackson's 14th annual report on Alaskan education. Jackson includes reports from the 20 government schools, reports from mission schools, Alaska public school statistics for 1892-1899, information on Sitka Industrial School graduates. Chapter 32 is Jackson's ninth annual report on introduction of domestic reindeer into Alaska [ED613532]. Consular reports in Chapter 33 address issues in Belgium, France, Austria, Great Britain, Russia, Germany, Switzerland, French children's mutual-aid societies, high-art reproductions for the U.S., French workingmen's aid societies, and schools of firearms and cabinetmaking. Chapter 34 lists foreign higher-education institutions. Chapter 35 discusses city teachers' salaries, teacher pensions and annuities, the English and Welsh teaching force, German university foreign students, Prussian university women students, teacher mortality, and a new history of education. Chapter 36 presents statistics on city school systems, including recent laws, enrollment, attendance, expenditures, receipts, and data on officers, teachers, and property. Chapter 37, on higher education institutions, lists study-course changes and new buildings. The introduction of the associate degree, with its advantages, is discussed. Various universities requirements for the Ph.D. degree are given. Data is provided on public and private institutional enrollment, enrollment in colleges for men and for both sexes, nonsectarian and religious control, professors and instructors, degrees conferred on men and on women, finances, women's colleges, and technology schools. Chapters 38 through 40 present statistics and discussion on professional schools, agricultural and mechanical schools including sections on dairying education and domestic or household economy and art instruction, and normal schools. Subsequent chapters offer statistics on secondary schools; manual and industrial training schools; commercial and business schools; education of the colored race; reform schools; schools for the defective classes, including those for the blind, deaf, and feeble-minded; and public kindergartens. Chapter 47 reviews normal-school history in 33 states and Arizona Territory, and of normal schools for colored teachers, city normal and training schools, and private normal schools. Subsequent chapters present an education necrology for 1898, portable school building discussion, and foreign education statistics. [For Volume 1, see ED622102.]

The Commissioner of Education reports on the work of the office and its publications over the year. Statistical summaries and discussion are presented on enrollment; attendance; teacher workforce and pay; school finance; state and territorial education; kindergarten; city education; education of the colored race; institutions for the superior instruction of women; secondary and preparatory education; textbooks; study courses; colleges and universities; degrees conferred; education benefactions; commercial and business colleges; professional schools; institutions for the deaf and dumb; institutions for the blind; schools for the feeble-minded; reform schools; special schools for Indians; orphan asylums; and U.S. Army post schools. The report also addresses high school discipline and truancy; the Peabody fund; preparatory courses for higher scientific study; the Round Hill School; school houses and schools maintained by private effort; admissions requirements for women's colleges; opportunities for women's higher education; college government; recent history of agricultural colleges and of schools of science not endowed by the national land grant; sale of college and professional degrees; summer and evening schools; popular science teaching; charities; sanitation and education; color blindness and myopia; the physiology of reading and writing; school grounds; school litigation; exemption of school property from taxation; forestry instruction; scientific investigations; and graphic methods of exhibiting education in museums. The Commissioner also gives conclusions and recommendations. Abstracted official reports and other information from state, territorial, and city school officers as well as a list of educational associations are included. Detailed statistics follow the report.

The Commissioner of Education reviews the work of the office, and provides discussion and data, with some diagrams on the following topics: six-year summary of institutions, instructors, and students; enrollment and attendance of the school-age population; public school teacher employment and salaries; per-capita expenditures on ungraded schools by states and territories; the teaching force; school inspection and examination; a summary of state and territorial education condition; education of the colored race; the Peabody fund; city schools; superintendence; primary grades; grammar grades in Southern cities; authors' days in schools and color blindness; normal schools; commercial and business colleges; kindergarten; secondary schools; preparatory schools; institutions for the superior instruction of women; women's admission to English universities; universities and colleges; schools of science; European agricultural education; schools of theology, law, and medicine; degrees conferred; public libraries; nurse-training schools; institutions for the deaf and dumb, and for the blind; schools for feeble-minded youth; reform schools; homes and asylums for orphan or dependent children; infant asylums and industrial schools; education benefactions; education publications; patentees for school furniture and equipment; foreign education; special schools; drawing and sewing in public schools; needlework in German elementary schools; public-school boys' manual training; French school manual training; industrial schools; army post schools; summer schools; education and forestry; organized charities; school committee and school board power; taxation for school purposes; territorial school supervision; and trespasses upon territorial public school lands. The Commissioner offers recommendations. Abstracted school officer reports and other information from states, territories, and cities are provided. Educational associations are listed. Detailed statistical tables are given for most topics above, as well as schools of dentistry and pharmacy, and entrance examinations for the U.S. Military and Naval Academies. [Part 2 is not available.]

In this report, the Commissioner of Education presents a general review of the U.S. educational condition, discusses the work of the Commissioner's office, and offers summaries of education statistics, using diagrams. Also provided are a summary of educational condition in the states and territories and comparative statistics and remarks on Southern education. Additionally, the report includes discussion, summary data, and diagrams on the following topics: yellow fever and the schools; education of Southern whites; the Peabody fund; supervising school officers; public school textbooks and curricula; rural students; curricula for ungraded schools; educational beginnings; city school statistics; special schools; normal schools; commercial and business colleges; kindergarten; secondary schools; preparatory schools; schools for the superior instruction of women; universities and colleges; classical and scientific instruction; schools of science, theology, law, and medicine; degrees conferred; libraries; schools for the feeble-minded; institutions for the deaf and dumb, and for the blind; reform schools; special training in schoolships; orphan asylums, soldiers' orphans' homes, infant asylums, industrial schools, and miscellaneous charities; education benefactions; educational publications; patentees for school furniture and apparatus; foreign education; Dr. David Murray and Japanese education; U.S. education at the Paris Exposition; special instruction; cookery schools; nurses' training schools; industrial training; drawing in the Boston public schools; girls' sewing instruction; industrial instruction for the dependent classes; and foreign apprentice schools. The Commissioner then makes recommendations and concluding remarks. Abstracted state, territorial, and city school officer reports with additional information are provided. Discussion of educational associations and education in Sunday schools is also included. Detailed statistical tables cover most topics above as well as admissions examinations for the U.S. Military and Naval Academies. [Part 2 is not available.]

In this report, the Commissioner of Education offers discussion and statistical summaries on: general educational condition; conflict of capital and labor; the work of his office; school and college catalogues; state and territorial education condition; schools for the colored race; township school systems; free textbooks; education supervision; city education; public school hygiene; education vs. police; janitors' wages; normal schools; pedagogic professorships; business colleges; kindergarten; secondary schools; the high school question; secondary instruction abroad; foreign secondary instruction; preparatory schools; colleges for women; universities and colleges; condition of superior instruction; college student health; vacation schools; schools of science, theology, law, and medicine; degrees conferred; public libraries, including early American libraries; the Library of Congress; the Office of the Commissioner library; schools for the deaf and dumb, and for the blind; educational benefactions; schools for the feeble minded; patentees for school-furniture improvements; foreign education; art education; orphan asylums; soldiers' orphan homes; infant asylums; industrial schools; miscellaneous charities; reform schools; and crime and education; and makes recommendations and a conclusion. Abstracted official reports from state, territorial, and city school officers are provided along with other information. Educational conventions and associations are noted. Detailed statistical tables the topics above are provided. [Part 2 is not available.]

The Commissioner of Education presents an education-progress review, and discusses compulsory education; national education aid; work of the commissioner's office; education statistical summaries; nurse-training schools; states' education duties; results of five years' compulsory education in Great Britain; industrial day schools; the Boston Whittling School; French compulsory education; prevention of cruelty to children; state laws concerning children; English reformatories; foreign education; education at the U.S. Centennial Exhibition; and notable education visits. The commissioner also offers recommendations and a conclusion. The report provides abstracted school officers' reports from the states, territories, with other information, as well as abstracts on education conventions and associations. Special articles cover the study of Anglo-Saxon, Greek pronunciation in the U.S., and Latin pronunciation. Statistical tables cover state and territorial school systems; school systems of cities with populations upwards of 7,500; normal schools, commercial and business colleges; kindergarten; secondary institutions; preparatory schools; institutions for superior instruction of women; universities and colleges; schools of science, theology, law, medicine, dentistry, and pharmacy; admissions examinations for the U.S. Military and Naval Academies; degrees conferred; public libraries with upwards of 300 volumes; museums; institutions for the deaf and dumb and for the blind; orphan asylums; miscellaneous charities and industrial schools; reform schools; schools and asylums for feeble-minded children; education benefactions; education and historical publications; and patentees for improvements in school furniture and apparatus.

The Commissioner of Education discusses the office's work and needs; education records; records improved by the Centennial celebration; lessons learned from the educational experience; condition of education at the time of the Declaration of Independence; current U.S. education statistics; education in other countries; education representation at the International Centennial Exhibition of 1876; the U.S. educational exhibit at the Vienna Exposition in 1873; health and education; typhoid fever in schools; unpublished statements and other information of interest; and medical jurisprudence. He also makes recommendations and offers concluding remarks. Appendices include abstracted school-officer reports from the states, territories, and cities, plus data and discussion of Indian education; education conventions and associations; and education in Sunday schools and mission schools. Statistical tables cover state and territorial data; normal schools; commercial and business colleges; kindergarten; secondary education; preparatory schools; institutions for the superior instruction of women; universities and colleges; schools of science, theology, law, medicine, dentistry, and pharmacy; degrees conferred; public libraries with upwards of 300 volumes; museums; institutions for the deaf and dumb and for the blind; statistics of orphan asylums; miscellaneous charities and industrial schools; schools and asylums for feeble-minded children; educational benefactions; education and historical publications; and patentees for school furniture and apparatus.

This report provides abstracts of official reports from state, territorial, and city school officers. The appendices give information and statistics on Indian education; education conventions and institutes; national science schools; education for the blind; education for the deaf and dumb; foreign education; German education; women's educational progress; Cooper Union; artisan education; kindergarten objectives; music education; the relationship between education and insanity; the relationship between education and crime; and the press as an educator. General school statistics cover census statistics; school statistics; school finance; cities; normal schools; commercial and business schools; secondary education institutions; U.S. Military and U.S. Naval Academies' appointments, examinations, and projections; colleges; scientific, agricultural, theological, legal, and medical, dental, and pharmaceutical education institutions; major U.S. libraries; institutions for the deaf and dumb, and for the blind; asylums for idiots; a summary of unfortunates; inebriate asylums; educational benefactions; education costs in the states, and in the cities; reformatory and prison statistics; city superintendent reports; and education publications. [This report is part of Vol. 2 of the Secretary of the Interior's report to Congress.]

This volume contains the remaining two parts of the 1890-'91 Commissioner of Education report. Part II includes: name register; history and status of public kindergarten and ecoles gardiennes in several European countries; statistical summaries of city public schools; secondary schools; higher education; professional schools; education in southwestern Virginia; report on education in Alaska; education of the colored race; class intervals in city public schools; educational statistics; discussion of current educational questions; report to the British Medical Association and Charity Organization Society of London on the physical and mental condition of 50,000 children seen in 106 schools of London; and facilities in experimental psychology in the colleges of the United States. Part III includes statistical tables pertaining to: kindergartens; population; property; public high schools; endowed academies, seminaries, and other private secondary schools; private secondary schools; universities and colleges for men only, and for both sexes; colleges for women (Division A); colleges for women (Division B); schools of medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, veterinary medicine, nurse training, theology, and law; schools for training teachers both under and not under State or municipal control; business colleges; schools for the colored race; schools for the deaf; schools for the feeble-minded; and reform schools. A list of historical societies, a list of other learned societies, and an index are included. [For Part I, see ED617454 (Volume 1).]

Volume II of the 1888-1889 "Report of the Commissioner of Education" has one part. Part III -- Detailed Statistics of Educational Systems and Institutions, with Comments and Discussions: (1) Statistics of State Common School Systems; (2) Digests of State School Reports; (3) Report of the General Agent of Education for Alaska; (4) City School Systems; (5) The Training of Teachers; (6) Secondary Instruction; (7) Superior and Professional Instruction: (1) Colleges for Women, (2) Colleges and Universities, (3) Schools of Science, (4) Professional Instruction, (5) Degrees, and (6) Courses of Study; (8) Manual Training; (9) Commercial and Business Colleges; (10) Training Schools for Nurses; (11) Education of Special Classes: (1) Education of the Deaf and Blind, (2) Education of the Feeble Minded, (3) Education of Juvenile Delinquents, and (4) Education of the Colored Race; (12) Statistics of Public Elementary Schools in Foreign Countries; (13) Obitual List [Obituary list of notable educators]; and (14) Index to the Publications of the Bureau of Education. [For Volume I, see ED617447.]

The Commissioner of Education presents facts relating to State reports, recess or no recess, school legislation; statistics of correspondents of the Bureau; growth of education in the United States; school ages, summary of statistics of State systems; summary of the statistics of the last ten years; school population, enrollment, and average attendance; comparative view of school attendance in the more densely populated States; defective administration of common schools; status of the teaching force; supervision of country schools; graded course of study; compulsory attendance. Also presented are the summary of the educational condition of the Union; education of the colored race; statistics of institutions for the education of the colored race; teachers for colored schools; illiteracy in the South; industrial training for colored youth; the Peabody fund; the John F. Slater fund; summary of statistics of city systems; table of average expenses per capita for city schools, school population, enrollment, and attendance in cities. Also included are reports on examinations; an experiment in discipline; supervision; free text books and stationery; gymnastics; tenure of office of teachers; administration, the teaching of vocal music in public schools; statistics relating to city superintendents; summary of statistics of normal schools; appropriations for normal schools; character of normal training; information concerning particular schools; teachers' institutes, etc.; summary of statistics of commercial and business colleges; summary of statistics of kindergarten; general statistical summary of pupils receiving secondary instruction; summary of statistics of institutions for secondary instruction; summary of statistics of preparatory schools; public high schools; measures for improving secondary instruction; overwork in secondary schools; statistical summary of students in classical and scientific preparatory courses; statistical summary of students in institutions for superior instruction; summary of statistics of institutions for the superior instruction of women; summary of statistics of universities and colleges; distinction between colleges and universities; movements in certain colleges, graduate departments; the university of the nineteenth century; colleges whose main work is in the undergraduate department; catalogues of American colleges; statistics of alumni of colleges and universities; summary of statistics of schools of science; classification of scientific students in a number of institutions; meaning of the expression, "industrial education," the Workingman's School, New York; experiments in connection with city public schools; exercises of universal application; exhibitions of industrial work by school children; industrial training in normal schools, in the South; special schools; instruction in cookery; summary of statistics of schools of theology; summary of statistics of schools of law; summary of statistics of schools of medicine, etc.; statistical summary of all degrees conferred; summary of statistics of training schools for nurses; education of the deaf and dumb; summary of statistics of institutions for the deaf and dumb; education of the blind; summary of statistics of schools for the blind; education of the feeble-minded; summary of statistics of schools for feeble minded youth; statistical summary of benefactions; list of historical societies in the United States; education in foreign countries, recommendations, and appropriations needed. Abstracts and an index are included.

In this thirteenth annual report, the Commissioner of Education discusses the Bureau of Education's work, with a list of its publications from the year. The Commissioner also presents summary data of institutions, instructors, and students; school age, population, enrolment, and attendance; legal school ages in the United States; teachers employed in the public schools and their average monthly salaries, annual income and expenditure for public schools. The following are also included and discussed: summary of per capita expenditure; statistical generalization by years and topics; compulsory school laws; summary of the educational condition of the States and Territories; comparative statistics of education in the South, with figures respecting the education of the colored race; Peabody fund; summary of school statistics of cities; school population, accommodation, and attendance in cities; truancy in cities; tendencies in urban school instruction; grading in city schools; evening schools in cities and city school finances; school system of Washington, D.C.; summary of normal school statistics; appropriations for normal schools; observations of Dr. McLellan, inspector of high schools in Ontario, respecting normal school instruction in the United States; normal instruction in New York State; pedagogics in universities and colleges; provision in other countries for training teachers; summary of statistics of commercial and business colleges; summary of statistics of Kindergarten; charity work of Kindergarten; public schools and Kindergarten; French view of American Kindergarten work; summary of statistics of pupils receiving secondary (including preparatory) instruction; summary of statistics of preparatory schools; secondary instruction in Great Britain; overwork in secondary schools in Germany; summary of statistics of institutions for the superior education of women; higher education of women in Great Britain and on the continent; summary of statistics of universities and colleges; summary of statistics of schools of science; preparation for industrial arts; education in agriculture; instruction in practical mechanics; manual training schools; electrical engineering; Rose Polytechnic Institute; institutions needed for industrial education; summary of statistics of schools of theology; summary of statistics of schools of law; summary of statistics of schools of medicine, dentistry, and pharmacy; review of progress in medical education; medical schools for the colored race; medical school of Harvard University; summary of statistics of degrees conferred; summary of statistics of public libraries; summary of statistics of training schools for nurses; summary of statistics of institutions for the deaf and dumb; summary of statistics of schools for the blind; visit of Dr. Wm. Moon; summary of statistics of schools for the feeble-minded; summary of statistics of reform schools; protection of foreign-born children; summary of statistics of orphan homes and asylums; summary of educational benefactions; summary of educational publications; summary of patents for improvements in school furniture; education in foreign countries; technical instruction in Europe; Public Industrial Art School of the City of Philadelphia; congresses and exhibitions; forestry; forthcoming publications of the Bureau of Education; and recommendations. Abstracts and an index are included.

In this report, the Education Commissioner discusses the office's work, with a list of its publications. The Commissioner of Education also presents summary data and discussion on the census related to education and on illiteracy among minors as taken from the census; school age, population, enrollment, and attendance; teacher workforce, salaries, qualifications, and appointments; school finance; the district system; condition of education in the states, territories, and cities; Southern education; and education of the colored race. The Commissioner of Education also covers issues related to cities: school accommodation and attendance, illiteracy, primary schools, higher grade schools, evening and special schools, and city school finances, moral, and physical training. Normal schools are discussed, including appropriations, comparative admission requirements for normal schools and professional schools, normal school courses of study in the U.S. and abroad, teachers' institutes, and normal training in colleges. Other topics include kindergarten and public schools; secondary and preparatory education; institutions for the superior instruction of women; universities and colleges; college hygiene; elective systems; college attendance variations; political science schools; mechanical engineering, physics, and chemistry instruction; manual training schools; industrial schools for miners and mechanics; the Royal Agricultural High School of Berlin; professional-school summary statistics; medical school entrance examinations; nursing education; and degrees conferred. Library-related topics include summary statistics; library management; libraries and schools; and catalogues and indexes. Information is given on defective classes; institutions for the deaf and dumb; deaf-mute day schools; deaf-mute literary and industrial instruction; National Deaf-Mute College; schools for the blind and their history; printing for and instruction of the blind; schools for the feeble-minded and classification and instruction of the feeble-minded; idiocy causes; reform schools; Michigan's reformatory system; the family system in reform schools; the New Jersey State Reform School; girls' reformation; orphan homes and asylums; education benefactions; education publications; patentees in education furniture; and foreign education. The Commissioner of Education offers concluding remarks and recommendations. Detailed tables cover institutions across sectors, benefactions, publications, and education patentees.