The biennial survey presents statistics and discussion for 1947-48 on broad-range education, state school systems, city school systems, higher education, special schools and classes for exceptional children, libraries in institutions of higher education, nonpublic secondary schools, and public school libraries. Topics include administrative units,…

Following the setbacks of wartime, teaching is once more on the march toward a professional status that is in keeping with its great importance to the Nation and to the world. Numerous agencies have expressed the need for an authoritative statement setting forth the facts on which a young person might base a decision to enter upon teaching as a…

This bulletin is published as a much-need service to young men and women considering preparation for teaching. In it they will find information and judgments on duties, requirements, opportunities, satisfactions and annoyances in teaching as a life work. Because essential data has changed, the current report is written to describe the occupation…

Statistics concerning the training of teachers are given in this report. The major items presented include total enrollments; enrollments in teacher-training courses; instructors; graduates; receipts, including sources of support; expenditures; and detailed information regarding demonstration schools and practice teaching. The greater portion of…

Statistics concerning city school systems for the year ending June, 1926, are presented in this report. The principal items included are: (1) the number of teachers; (2) number of pupils enrolled in kindergartens; (3) elementary grades; (4) high schools, including junior departments; (5) vocational schools; (6) normal schools and colleges under…

This bulletin is the result of a study made in the Province of Ontario during the fall of 1914. The purpose of the investigation was, more than anything else, to seek some fair basis for comparison of the Schools of Old Ontario--wedged in as it is between New York and Michigan--and the States across the border. Chief attention is to rural life and…

This report presents the statistics of city public schools for the school year 1917-18. An attempt has been made for the first time to secure statistics from all cities which had a population of 2,500 or over in 1910. The cities have been divided into five groups: Group I, including all cities with a population of 100,000 and over; Group II, all…

This bulletin presents the statistics of city school systems in 1937-38. The four population groups in this report are as follows: Group I contains 90 cities each having a population of at least 100,000 and each of which constitutes a school administrative unit. Group II contains 212 cities having a population of not less than 30,000 or more than…

This bulletin presents statistics of state school systems in 1937-38. For the most part statistics presented in this chapter relate to public elementary and secondary schools in 48 States, the District of Columbia, and the outlying parts of the United States. Such data were submitted by States for nonpublic schools are incorporated in separate…

The work presented in this bulletin is in continuation of the plan inaugurated three years ago, which has resulted in two similar publications covering the periods 1904-1906 and 1906-1908 (Bulletin, 1906, No. 3, and Bulletin, 1908, No. 7). In this bulletin an attempt has been made to classify and to analyze the changes wrought in the public school…

The material presented in this compilation constitutes a second supplement to Bulletin, 1915, No. 47, "Digest of Stage Laws Relating to Public Education," the first such supplement having been embodied in Bulletin, 1918, No. 23, "State Laws Relating to Education, Enacted in 1915, 1916, and 1917." The period covered extends from…

Acts by State legislatures affecting schools, colleges, and universities during 1933 and 1934 are reviewed herein. During this biennium the legislature of every State had one or more legislative sessions; all of them except Alabama had regular sessions. In approximately three-fourths of the States special sessions of the legislature were called.…

This bulletin focuses on these topics: (1) Higher education; (2) Some recent movements in city school systems; (3) Constructive tendencies in rural education; (4) Medical education; (5) The progress of dental education; (6) Recent progress in legal education; (7) Art education in the United States; (8) Industrial education; (9) Agricultural…