Report of the Commissioner of Education for the Year Ended June 30, 1909. Volume I

In Volume I, the Commissioner of Education introduces topics to be covered in the report. Chapter 1 covers current education topics, including work of boards and commissions, education associations, student aid, education standardization, public school teacher training, teacher salaries and pensions, tenure, international relations education, health and hygiene, playgrounds, compulsory education and child-labor laws, and education of the colored race. Chapter 2 covers education-related legislation in the second session of the 60th Congress. Subsequent chapters concern state education associations, insular education, foreign education, college and student periodicals received by District of Columbia libraries. Also included is a directory of chief state school officers, city superintendents, single-sex and coeducational college and university presidents, school of technology presidents, university and college pedagogy department heads and professors, and normal school principals. [For Volume II, see ED620728.]