ERIC Number: ED616913
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1876
Pages: 1206
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: N/A
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Report of the Commissioner of Education for the Year 1875
Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior
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 International Centennial Exhibition of 1876; the U.S. educational exhibit at the Vienna Exposition in 1873; health and education; typhoid fever in schools; unpublished statements and other information of interest; and medical jurisprudence. He also makes recommendations and offers concluding remarks. Appendices include abstracted school-officer reports from the states, territories, and cities, plus data and discussion of Indian education; education conventions and associations; and education in Sunday schools and mission schools. Statistical tables cover state and territorial data; normal schools; commercial and business colleges; kindergarten; secondary education; preparatory schools; institutions for the superior instruction of women; universities and colleges; schools of science, theology, law, medicine, dentistry, and pharmacy; degrees conferred; public libraries with upwards of 300 volumes; museums; institutions for the deaf and dumb and for the blind; statistics of orphan asylums; miscellaneous charities and industrial schools; schools and asylums for feeble-minded children; educational benefactions; education and historical publications; and patentees for school furniture and apparatus.
Descriptors: Public Agencies, Educational Experience, Educational History, Foreign Countries, Exhibits, Health, Communicable Diseases, American Indian Education, Professional Associations, Conferences (Gatherings), Religious Education, Schools of Education, Business Schools, Kindergarten, Secondary Education, College Preparation, Womens Education, Universities, Colleges, Science Education, Theological Education, Legal Education (Professions), Medical Education, Dentistry, Pharmaceutical Education, Academic Degrees, Public Libraries, Museums, Special Schools, Deafness, Blindness, Industrial Education, Intellectual Disability, Publications, Intellectual Property, Furniture, Educational Equipment, Educational Finance, Financial Support, School Statistics, Single Sex Schools
Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior.
Publication Type: Historical Materials; Reports - Descriptive; Numerical/Quantitative Data
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education; Early Childhood Education; Elementary Education; Kindergarten; Primary Education; Secondary Education
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: Department of the Interior, Bureau of Education (ED)
Identifiers - Location: Austria (Vienna)
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