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II. OTHER GRANTS FOR COMMON SCHOOLS
1. Saline Grants, with Table .
2. The Five per Centum Fund, with Table
3. The Surplus Revenue Distribution
Proposals; Bill of 1836
Summarized History of the Deposits.
4. Internal Improvement Act of 1841; Tables
Table of Specific Grants since 1889
5. Swamp Land Grants.
6. Forest Income Grants
7. Recent Enabling Acts; Colorada; Dakotas
Oklahoma.
III. VALUE OF THE GRANTS FOR COMMON SCHOOLS
1. States admitted before 1825
2. States admitted after 1825 and before 1850
3. States admitted from 1850 to 1880
4. States admitted since 1880
IV. NATIONAL AID TO HIGHER EDUCATION
1. Seminary Township Grants
2. Proposition to grant Land for Universities, 1819
3. The Land Grant Colleges .
V. PROPOSALS FOR SPECIAL GRANTS TO PUBLIC SCHOOLS
1. The Hoar and Blair Bills.
2. Table showing Unappropriated National Lands
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CHAPTER III. FEDERAL AGENCIES FOR EDUCATION
I. FEDERAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR EDUCATION.
1. Appropriations by the United States Government for the
Advancement of Education for the Fiscal Year ending
June 30, 1914
109
110
2. Special Appropriations by the United States Government
to National and International Congresses, Scientific
Associations, etc., for the Fiscal Year ending June
30, 1914
3. Appropriations for the United States Department of Agri-
culture for the Fiscal Year ending June 30, 1914
117
118
119
120
121
122
Support and Staff - Department of
Agriculture and Bureau of Education
124
VI. THE IDEA OF A NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
125
Act establishing the Children's Bureau (1912)
V. THE BUREAU OF EDUCATION
1. Statutes relating to the Office of Education in the Interior
CHAPTER IV. CONTEMPORARY MOVEMENTS FOR
NATIONALIZING AMERICAN EDUCATION
I. EDUCATION AND THE NATION
Sixth Annual Report, Carnegie Foundation for the Advance-
ment of Teaching
II. INCREASED NATIONAL AID
Proposed Bill for Promotion of Vocational Education (1914) 132
1. The Development of State Control in New York: FAIR-
LIE, J. A., The Centralization of Administration in
New York State.
2. Later Development in New York: CUBBERLEY, E. P., in
Monroe, Paul, Encyclopædia of Education, Vol. IV,
pp. 463-4
III. THE JURISDICTION OF THE STATE: JUDICIAL INTERPRETATIONS
1. State versus Local Authority: State v. Haworth (Indiana)
2. Power of State Educational Officers: Hutchinson v.
Skinner (New York).
IV. STATE UNITY AND EDUCATIONAL REFORM
Report of the Special Educational Commission for Connecti-
143
151
153
156
CHAPTER VI. ORIGIN OF THE UNITS AND
FORMS FOR LOCAL CONTROL
III. THE STRUGGLE TO ESTABLISH THE TOWNSHIP SYSTEM IN INDIANA 173
RAWLES, W. A. (Centralizing Tendencies in the Administra-
tion of Indiana).
178
CHAPTER VII. THE DISTRICT UNIT AND THE
DISTRICT SYSTEM
V. COMMENTS ON THE DISTRICT SYSTEM BY SCHOOL OFficers
1. CASSIDY, M. A., Some Needed Legislation in Kentucky
2. WRIGHT, L. L., Auditing District Accounts (Michigan)
3. BLAIR, F. G., Waste in Education (Illinois)
4. FAIRCHILD, E. T., A Larger Unit of School Organization
(Kansas)
208
III. COMMENTS ON TOWN AND TOWNSHIP SYSTEMS
1. The Township Unit System - Michigan
2. Some Objections to the Township System - Illinois.
3. Opinions of State School Officers
213
215
II. NEED OF A CHANGE IN THE METHOD OF ELECTING COUNTY
SUPERINTENDENTS
229
1. Fundamental Weaknesses of Present System, Wisconsin 232
2. The Work of a County Superintendent, Wisconsin
3. The County School Superintendent, Oregon
4. The County Superintendent's Powers, Missouri
5. County and City Superintendents Compared, South
6. The County Superintendency and Politics, Editorial
III. NEED OF A LARGER ADMINISTRATIVE UNIT
1. A Larger Administrative Unit Needed, Oregon
2. The County as a School Unit, Missouri
3. Recommended Legislation, Missouri.
233
234
4. The Advantages of a County Board of Education, Illinois 240
IV. THE MARYLAND FORM OF COUNTY EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATION,
246
V. THE COUNTY UNIT IN EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATION IN GEORGIA,
EVANS, L. B.
CHAPTER X. THE RURAL SCHOOL PROBLEM
I. THE APPROVAL of RURAL SCHOOLS, MISSOURI
II. SOME RURAL SCHOOL DIFFICULTIES, TEXAS
III.
IV.
THE CONSOLIDATION OF RURAL SCHOOLS, OHIO.
CONSOLIDATION IN DISTRICT-SYSTEM STATES, MISSOURI
V. CONSOLIDATION IN TOWNSHIP-SYSTEM STATES, INDIANA
CONSOLIDATION UNDER THE COUNTY UNIT
VI.
1. Fundamental Rural Needs in Missouri
2. A Larger Unit of School Organization, Kansas.
3. Rural School Needs in Vermont
CHAPTER XI. STATE EDUCATIONAL
ORGANIZATION
I.
EVOLUTION OF THE STATE SUPERINTENDENCY.
II.
DUTIES OF THE STATE SUPERINTENDENT (OREGON)
III. THE OFFICE OF STATE SUPERINTENDENT
REED, THOMAS H., A Constitutional State Board of Education 291
IV. STATE BOARDS OF EDUCATION
1. Oregon
282
292
293
1. The State Board of Education: REED, THOMAS H., A
Constitutional State Board of Education
2. Advantages of a State Board of Education: Final Report
of Illinois Educational Commission
301
3. The Reorganization of the Agencies for Administration,
Study of Education in Vermont - Carnegie Founda-
tion for the Advancement of Teaching
4. A Right System of Schools for an American Common-
wealth