Anyone who has taken the pains to follow educational direction and administrative action during the past two years will recognize that one of the most important current tendencies in higher education is the desire to obliterate the sharp distinction between college life and life thereafter. The educational program is being directed to service…

Included in this bulletin are the statistical reports on student enrollments, the increase in teaching staff, military educational enrollments, and income of land grant colleges. The reports of the agricultural and mechanical colleges for the years 1918-19 and 1919-20 are indicative of marked material progress. (Contains 13 tables.) [Best copy…

This bulletin is the fifth report in the special series presenting a record of the educational-survey movement, and was prepared with special reference to the biennium 1920-1922; but, for the sake of continuity with the material in preceding reports, it includes the relatively few surveys made in 1915-1920. The surveys within each classified group…

Progress in home economics education has been marked in recent years. To the normal rapid increase in the number of high schools offering courses, the extension of systematic training in home making into the lower grades, the establishment of new courses in liberal arts colleges, and the more adequate support of departments previously organized…

This annual bulletin, formerly prepared and published by the National Association of State Universities, has been published by the Bureau of Education for the past 11 years. The data given are taken from reports received from the offices of the presidents of the various institutions, and the figures printed are substantially as given in those…

This digest is a compilation of the more significant statistical material available in the Office of Education on the American educational system. It contains information on a variety of subjects within the broad field of educational statistics, including schools, enrollments, teachers, graduates, educational attainment, finances, and Federal…

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…

In this report, the Commissioner of Education comments on data on city and state education, school superintendence, cost of education and police, increased attention to schoolhouse ventilation, women as school officers, women's education, the Vienna Exposition and awards to American educational exhibitors, American educators' European visits,…

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 report presents data and discussion on U.S. education across sectors, as well as the work of the Office of Education. Among topics covered are a progress report by the Commissioner of Education; Office of Education management; the career education in educational reform; higher education, including student financial aid and the Talent Search…

The 2011 edition of the "Digest of Education Statistics" is the 47th in a series of publications initiated in 1962. The "Digest" has been issued annually except for combined editions for the years 1977-78, 1983-84, and 1985-86. Its primary purpose is to provide a compilation of statistical information covering the broad field…

This bulletin contains a selected, annotated, and classified bibliography of educational literature for the period January to March, 1932, inclusive. The bibliography includes significant publications in the field of education which have appeared during the quarter, having been selected by specialists in certain fields who are serving as…

The General Education Board has, since its foundation in 1902, to June 30, 1928, appropriated $176,689,425.54 for the promotion of education in the United States. Of this sum $112,163,437.95 was paid to colleges and other institutions for Whites; $12,991,854.75 to institutions for Negroes; and $1,317.023.91 to miscellaneous objects. This report…

This report presents the statistics of 371 teachers' colleges and normal schools for 1919-20. For the first time the list of teachers' colleges appears. It is composed of institutions offering four years of work above the secondary school and granting degrees. The work offered in such schools is considered of collegiate grade and is of such…

This report presents the statistics of public schools in cities for the school year 1921-1922. The bureau has followed the classification based upon population as reported by the Bureau of the Census in 1920. Group I includes all cities having a population of 100,000 or more; Group II includes cities having a population of 30,000 or more, but…