ERIC Number: ED616914
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1878
Pages: 1168
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: N/A
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Report of the Commissioner of Education for the Year 1876
Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior
The Commissioner of Education presents an education-progress review, and discusses compulsory education; national education aid; work of the commissioner's office; education statistical summaries; nurse-training schools; states' education duties; results of five years' compulsory education in Great Britain; industrial day schools; the Boston Whittling School; French compulsory education; prevention of cruelty to children; state laws concerning children; English reformatories; foreign education; education at the U.S. Centennial Exhibition; and notable education visits. The commissioner also offers recommendations and a conclusion. The report provides abstracted school officers' reports from the states, territories, with other information, as well as abstracts on education conventions and associations. Special articles cover the study of Anglo-Saxon, Greek pronunciation in the U.S., and Latin pronunciation. Statistical tables cover state and territorial school systems; school systems of cities with populations upwards of 7,500; normal schools, commercial and business colleges; kindergarten; secondary institutions; preparatory schools; institutions for superior instruction of women; universities and colleges; schools of science, theology, law, medicine, dentistry, and pharmacy; admissions examinations for the U.S. Military and Naval Academies; degrees conferred; public libraries with upwards of 300 volumes; museums; institutions for the deaf and dumb and for the blind; orphan asylums; miscellaneous charities and industrial schools; reform schools; schools and asylums for feeble-minded children; education benefactions; education and historical publications; and patentees for improvements in school furniture and apparatus.
Descriptors: Professional Associations, Conferences (Gatherings), 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, Public Agencies, Compulsory Education, Nursing Education, Foreign Countries, Day Schools, Child Abuse, Prevention, State Legislation, Old English, Greek, Pronunciation, Latin, Military Schools, College Entrance Examinations
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
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Department of the Interior, Bureau of Education (ED)
Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom (Great Britain); Massachusetts (Boston); France; United Kingdom (England)
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