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ERIC Number: ED616939
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1879
Pages: 872
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: N/A
EISSN: N/A
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.]
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
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: Department of the Interior, Bureau of Education (ED)
Grant or Contract Numbers: N/A