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ERIC Number: ED620493
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1902
Pages: 1338
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: N/A
EISSN: N/A
Report of the Commissioner of Education for the Year 1900-1901. Volume 1
United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior
After the Commissioner of Education's introduction, Volume 1 presents state school system statistics and a list of U.S. Bureau of Education publications. Chapters cover central European education; Ohio public school legislative history; school consolidation and pupil transportation; U.S. industrial education; educational pathology; formation of an international association for advancement of science, arts, and education; education and training for the railroad industry; nervous system development and movement; inhibition and child restlessness; common schools in Louisiana, Missouri, Arkansas, and Texas; Southern common-school education from the beginning of the Civil War to 1870-1876, including freemen's elementary education in Washington during the Civil War, freedmen's education, inauguration of Louisiana common school system among the colored people, the Freedmen's Bureau, mission schools, and the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute; establishing a normal school for Virginia women; Southern education; German instruction in American schools; first comprehensive child-study attempts; negro education, including in the cities, negro intellectual capacity, need for and objections to negro higher education, negroes in Northern colleges, colored professional men, and negroes of distinction in intellectual activity; early English writers on education; the Association of Catholic Colleges third annual conference; British and Irish education; the South's public school problem, including the effects of war and reconstruction, country schools, compulsory attendance, and supervision; temperance education; the relationship between the national government and higher education and research; the Carnegie Institution, with a list of Andrew Carnegie's principal educational benefactions in the U.S.; French education; higher commercial education; a list of U.S. education periodicals; directories of chief state school officers, city superintendents, presidents of colleges for men and coeducational colleges, women's college presidents, technology school presidents, and normal school principals. [For Volume 2, see ED620496.]
Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior.
Publication Type: Historical Materials; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: Department of the Interior, United States Bureau of Education (ED)
Identifiers - Location: Europe; Ohio; Louisiana; Missouri; Arkansas; Texas; Washington; Virginia; United Kingdom; France
Grant or Contract Numbers: N/A