ERIC Number: ED619961
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1905
Pages: 1312
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: N/A
EISSN: N/A
Report of the Commissioner of Education for the Year 1903. Volume 2
United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior
Volume 2 addresses German school courses of study, a report on the Chilean Education Congress and Exhibit, U.S. and foreign education necrology for 1902, and profiles of education benefactors and others who have devoted their lives to education. Chapter XXX's miscellaneous educational topics include remarks on education in America, a good urban school organization, how popular education's results justify its expense, the Commissioner's address at McKinley Manual Training School's dedication, and high school agricultural education. Chapter XXXI presents profiles of Emerson Elbridge White, Alice Freeman Palmer, Frank A. Hill, Charles Ammi Cutter, William E. Dodge, and Josiah Willard Gibbs. Subsequent chapters present statistics and discussion on city school systems; universities, colleges, and technological schools; agricultural and mechanical colleges; professional instruction; normal schools; secondary schools; manual and industrial training; commercial and business schools; nursing schools; schools for the colored race; reform schools; and schools for the defective classes, including the blind, deaf, and feeble-minded. Chapters XLIV and XLV discuss Alaskan education and the introduction of domestic reindeer into Alaska, respectively. Chapter XLVI covers education in the Philippines, Hawaii, and Cuba. Chapter XLVII's current topics discussed are compulsory attendance and child labor laws, school consolidation and pupil transportation, public school temperance instruction, Central European higher-institution students, North American Sunday school statistics, city school boards' legal status, public school Bible reading and religious exercises, teachers' pensions, corporal punishment regulations, coeducation, women in school administration, city school official and teacher salaries, education benefactions, Catholic school statistics, German university foreign students, U.S. school and college enrollment for 1902-03, reform of education in Roumania [sic], and foreign countries' elementary education statistics. [For Volume 1, see ED619960.]
Descriptors: Education, Foreign Countries, School Organization, Urban Schools, Popular Education, High Schools, Agricultural Education, School Statistics, Universities, Colleges, Agricultural Colleges, Professional Education, Schools of Education, Secondary Schools, Industrial Training, Business Schools, Nursing Education, African American Education, Special Schools, Students with Disabilities, Animals, Compulsory Education, Child Labor, Labor Legislation, Consolidated Schools, Student Transportation, Public Schools, Alcohol Education, College Students, Religious Education, Boards of Education, Retirement Benefits, Teacher Retirement, Punishment, Coeducation, Women Administrators, School Administration, Teacher Salaries, Salaries, Administrators, Financial Support, Educational Finance, Catholic Schools, Foreign Students, Enrollment, Educational Change, Elementary Education
Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior.
Publication Type: Historical Materials; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education; Higher Education; Postsecondary Education; Elementary Education
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: Department of the Interior, United States Bureau of Education (ED)
Identifiers - Location: Germany; Chile; United States; Alaska; Philippines; Hawaii; Cuba; North America; Romania; Europe
Grant or Contract Numbers: N/A