Report of the Commissioner of Education Made to the Secretary of the Interior for the Year ... with Accompanying Papers, Volume 1

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1896 - Education
 

Contents

EDUCATION IN FRANCE
29
Department of secondary instruction
38
Municipal boarding schools
47
Movement for adult education
53
Difficulties in the way of reform
60
The association of Greek studies address by Michel Bréal
66
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71
Rural schools and those of other cities
79
Secondary schools
86
The university and special schools
96
EDUCATION IN NORWAY
103
Outcome of law of 1889 from the statistical standpoint
112
Coeducation and the transition period
119
EDUCATION IN CENTRAL EUROPE
125
Pedagogy as a whole in its historical development
136
Separate schools in the United States
147
School savings banks in Europe and in the United States
160
Proportion of Catholics Protestants and Hebrews in secondary schools of Germany
167
Extracts from an essay entitled The latest movements in education in the United States
178
A German view of the report of the English Royal Commission on secondary education
185
Manual training in Germany
193
Comparative statistics of education in various countries
200
COMMERCIAL EDUCATION IN EUROPE
207
THE TEACHING OF CIVICS IN SWITZERLAND FRANCE AND ENGLAND
233
Organization of the State
239
Rights and duties of individuals
247
The teaching of civics in France
253
Taxes
258
EDUCATION IN GREECE By Daniel Quinn Ph D
267
The ephebi
275
Condition of education from the close of the war of liberation down to the present time
292
The gymnasia
302
The polytechnic institute
324
Societies established for educational purposes
332
Education free
338
Statistics of students and graduates of the university
344
General sketch of Sunday schools
351
Evangelical Lutheran Sunday schools
361
Evangelical Association Sunday schools
367
Presbyterian Sunday schools
373
Baptist Sunday schools
380
United Brethren in Christ
387
REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION TO FRESHMAN CLASS IN COLLEGES
457
Associations of colleges and preparatory schools
463
Requirements for admission to the freshman class of colleges universities and schools
480
THE LEGAL RIGHTS OF CHILDREN
615
Social environments of children in the slums of cities
622
The obligation to attend school or compulsory attendance
628
Power of the State to tax for school purposes
634
Tentative statement of the sources of revenue for the support of public schools in each
642
PSYCHOLOGICAL TENDENCIESTHE STUDY OF IMITATION
671
Extracts from a preliminary report on imitation by Prof J Royce
681
DISCUSSION OF EDUCATIONAL TOPICS BY PRESIDENT FRANCIS
695
Extension of technical education
703
HORACE MANN AND THE GREAT REVIVAL OF THE AMERICAN COMMON
715
Educational tour in Europe
745
His election to the United States Congress
754
Educational revival of the common school in the early colonial period
769
Enactment of a revised school law in Connecticut and appointment of Henry Barnard
776
Henry Barnard in Rhode Island
784
Assumes again the superintendency of schools in Connecticut
792
Becomes chancellor of the University of Wisconsin and agent of the board of normal
800
General introduction to the report
811
Report of subcommittee on school maintenance
821
Report of subcommittee on supervision
845
Report of subcommittee on supply of teachers
861
Report of subcommittee on instruction and discipline
873
ENTRANCE REQUIREMENTS FOR ENGINEERING Colleges
891
EARLY HISTORY OF THE KindergaRTEN IN ST Louis
899
Claim of the kindergarten for a place in the publicschool system
906
The symbolic phase of education
913
The practical conditions necessary for the success of the kindergarten
921
Sociological conceptions
993
Metallurgical conceptions
1026
Growth of the mining interest in the United States and its national importance
1032
Subterranean transportation of the ore
1050
What is taught in mining schools
1065
THE TENNESSEE CENTENNIAL AND INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION HELD
1081
The general educational exhibit 1001
1091
The exposition structures
1104
EDUCATIONAL DIRECTORY
1111
Presidents of colleges for males and coeducational colleges of liberal arts
1119
Presidents of colleges for women
1125
Principals of private normal schools
1132

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