Report of the Commissioner of Education for the Year 1903. Volume 1

The Commissioner's introduction to Volume 1 includes state school system statistics. Chapter I addresses vacation schools, playgrounds, and settlements, with discussion of poor children in major cities, playground conditions, playground social conditions, play psychology, and settlement-movement history. Subsequent chapters cover laws concerning agricultural and mechanical land-grant colleges, British and Irish education, London school board education administration, and American universities. Chapter VI offers education articles by early English writers. Denver Superintendent of Schools Aaron Gove gives an overview of U.S. public school systems in Chapter VII. Subsequent chapters cover the Southern educational movement; common school establishment in West Virginia, Maryland, Virginia, and Delaware between 1863 and 1900; current teacher-certification status; secondary education, including its history and current issues; and French education. Consular reports in Chapter XIV concern the Hebrew school of agriculture in Germany, the German colonial school in Witzenhausen, Saxon commercial education progress, continental European commercial education, German industrial and trade schools, school savings banks, technical education's influence, Quebec agriculture schools, education and crime elimination, European industrial education, the Moseley Industrial Commission inquiry, Japan's prison population, public school in the German Empire and in Prussia, German girls' commercial education, Liberia's education system, German industrial supplementary schools, women's admission to a German university, medical supervision of Berlin and Paris schools, and Russian schools. Subsequent chapters cover a list of foreign institutions of higher education; kindergarten; physical training; public, society, and school libraries; U.S. manual, industrial, and technical training; U.S. school and college coeducation; U.S. Catholic schools; state normal schools; the Bureau of Education's exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase Exhibition; a list of education periodicals; and a directory of chief state school officers, city superintendents, presidents of men's and coeducational liberal arts colleges, women's college presidents, technology school presidents, and principals of public and private normal schools. [For Volume 2, see ED619961.]