ERIC Number: ED616939
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1879
Pages: 872
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: N/A
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Report of the Commissioner of Education for the Year 1877. Part 1
Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior
In this report, the Commissioner of Education offers discussion and statistical summaries on: general educational condition; conflict of capital and labor; the work of his office; school and college catalogues; state and territorial education condition; schools for the colored race; township school systems; free textbooks; education supervision; city education; public school hygiene; education vs. police; janitors' wages; normal schools; pedagogic professorships; business colleges; kindergarten; secondary schools; the high school question; secondary instruction abroad; foreign secondary instruction; preparatory schools; colleges for women; universities and colleges; condition of superior instruction; college student health; vacation schools; schools of science, theology, law, and medicine; degrees conferred; public libraries, including early American libraries; the Library of Congress; the Office of the Commissioner library; schools for the deaf and dumb, and for the blind; educational benefactions; schools for the feeble minded; patentees for school-furniture improvements; foreign education; art education; orphan asylums; soldiers' orphan homes; infant asylums; industrial schools; miscellaneous charities; reform schools; and crime and education; and makes recommendations and a conclusion. Abstracted official reports from state, territorial, and city school officers are provided along with other information. Educational conventions and associations are noted. Detailed statistical tables the topics above are provided. [Part 2 is not available.]
Descriptors: Business Schools, Kindergarten, College Preparation, Womens Education, Universities, Colleges, Science Education, Theological Education, Legal Education (Professions), Medical Education, Academic Degrees, Public Libraries, Museums, Special Schools, Deafness, Blindness, Industrial Education, Intellectual Disability, Publications, Intellectual Property, Furniture, Educational Finance, Financial Support, School Statistics, Public Agencies, Foreign Countries, Labor, Catalogs, African American Education, Textbooks, Supervision, Urban Education, Public Schools, Hygiene, Police School Relationship, Sanitation, Wages, Teacher Educators, High Schools, College Students, Health, Vacation Programs, Secondary Schools, Single Sex Colleges, Crime, Art Education, Government Libraries
Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior.
Publication Type: Historical Materials; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education; Early Childhood Education; Elementary Education; Kindergarten; Primary Education; Secondary Education; High Schools
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Department of the Interior, Bureau of Education (ED)
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