2. TEACHERS-their qualifications and appointment,. Director-Object, import and official position,.. Class-system and Professors,.. Title, hours of work, leave of absence,. Degrees of Instruction-1810, 1812, 1816, 1831, 1837, Latin, Greek. Mathematies, 1856,.............. Mental Philosophy, Religion, Gymnastics, Stenography,. Establishment of New Institutions, School Year, Size of Classes, Vacations, School Programme,. Books of References, Discipline, Order of rank,. NUMBER ELEVEN. U. S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, Washington, March, 1867. For convenience of communication with many individuals interested in the same subject, (either of inquiry, or of reply,) in different parts of the country, the Commissioner of Education has adopted the publication of a Monthly Circular. Each number, as issued, will be forwarded by mail to persons supposed to be interested in the subject to which it is devoted. In addition to such Circulars, and information relating thereto, as the Commissioner may find it necessary or convenient to issue in these monthly numbers, he proposes to give, from time to time, as he may find space : 1. Acknowledgment of the receipt of all books, documents, and donations, of any kind, forwarded for the use of the department. 2 The contents of all educational, literary, and scientific periodicals which the publishers may send regularly to this office. 3 Notice in advance of the anniversaries or special meetings of educational associations, when authoritatively advised of the same. 4. Abstract of the proceedings of educational meetings when officially communicated. 5. Discussion and action of constitutional conventions, legislatures, municipal bodies, boards of education, and school committees, relating to schools and education. 6. Statistics, benefactions, and reliable items of educational movements in different States and countries. HENRY BARNARD, Commissioner. SECOND EDITION. Having occasion to re-issue the original Circulars, giving information of the "Act to establish the Department of Education," and the Schedule of Information sought by the Commissioner, together with the first of a series of articles on the successive efforts to secure from Congress the recognition of Education as a great national interest, the Commissioner adds a documentary history of the American Journal of Education, with a Classified Index of its contents, with a view of eliciting an expression of opinion as to his continuing his editorial charge of the same, until the original purpose of its publication is more fully attained, and as a repository of such official papers as may be in harmony with its original plan. H. B. |