Report of the Commissioner of Education Made to the Secretary of the Interior for the Year ... with Accompanying Papers

United States. Bureau of Education

U.S. Government Printing Office, 1887 - Education

Contents

• School year population and school population Table: 5
• Comparative statistics of State systems Table: 14
• Bummary of the comparative statistics of State systems Table: 21
• Table of facts relating to chief State school officers Table: 47
• 47: 81
• CitySCHOOL SYSTEMS: 215
• Summaries of city reporte: 221
• Summary by States of school statistics of cities and towns containing 5000: 239
• III: 256
• TRAINING OF TEACHERS: 305
• Course of instruction Connecticut Normal and Training School: 311
• French normal schools: 317
• Statistics of private normal schools Table 19: 328
• Kindergarten training schools: 334
• Statistics of kindergarten training schools Table 23: 355
• General statistical summary of pupils receiving secondary instruction Table: 362
• Statistics of preparatory schools and departments Table 29: 426
• SUPERIOR AND PROFESSIONAL INSTRUCTIOX: 437
• Statistics of institutions for the superior instruction of women Tablc 32: 442
• UNIVERSITI ES AND COLLEGESgeneral views: 459
• General view of the relative number of classical and scientific students Tablo: 465
• Comparative statistics of attendance on classical and scientific courses Table: 471
• Summary of statistics of colleges and universities Table 38: 490
• SCHOOLS OF SCIENCE: 520
• Statistics of schools of science not endowed with the national land grant: 531
• Statistics of schools of theology Tablo 48: 537
• SCHOOLS OF LAW: 545
• Statistics of schools of medicine dentistry and pharmacy Table 52: 551
• Summary of State laws regulating the practice of medicine: 561
• Statistical summary of all degreos conferred Table 53: 570
• Degrees conferred by nniversities colleges and scientific schools Table 54: 576
• Degrees conferred by professional schools not connected with universities: 590
• Summary of statistics of schools of industrial and inanual training Table 57: 596
• Statistics of manualtraining schools Table 59: 603
• Statistics of colleges and schools of military instruction Table 61: 609
• Summary of statistics of training schools for nurses Table 64: 625
• EDUCATION OF SPECIAL CLASSES: 632
• EDUCATION OF THE BLINDreports of institutions: 640
• EDUCATION OF JUVENILE DELINQUENTS: 646
• Statistics of institutions for the instruction of the colored race Table 18: 652
• Summary by States of the statistics of all Indian schools Table 82: 658
• Statistics of gifts and legacies to educational institutions Table 84: 664
• Edacational publications: 677
• Educational periodicals: 709
• Additional public libraries of 1000 volumes and upwards Table 86: 716
• Foreign educational statistics: 725
• Comparative statistics of elementary education in seven foreign cities Table: 731
• Distribution of the hours of study at Eton Table 93: 737
• The promotion of higher political education: 743
• Schools in Alaska: 750

Popular passages

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Bibliographic information

• Title: Report of the Commissioner of Education Made to the Secretary of the Interior for the Year ... with Accompanying Papers
• Author: United States. Bureau of Education
• Contributor: United States. Department of the Interior
• Publisher: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1887
• Original from: the University of California
• Digitized: Nov 16, 2006