The Forrest City times., 1895-10-04
EME RICAN SCHOOLS.

l Annual R~pors of the United States Com. | missioner Repiete with Interesting Facts Figures Showing Enrolment, Attend- anc-, Proportion to Population and In. crease Review of Syst Education in Foreign Countries.
 WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.-Dr. William T. Harris, United States commissioner of education, yesterday made public his annual report for the school year ended November 30, 1893. It com prises three parts. the first of which is devoted to statistics. They show that in the year ls93-94 the number of pupils enrolled in schools and col leges, public and private, in the United States was IS, 0S3. $50, or 22.5 per cent. of the entire population. This was an increase over the preceding year of 370,697, and the total would be increased to 15,4o0.o0 if pupils in attendance upon special edu- cational agencies were included. The enrolment of pupils in the public schools for the year numbered 12, 51O,- . 7l9, an increase of 1.92 per cent. over the preceding year, while the average attendance increased 345 per cent. The details of attendance show that children in the United States leave school about two-fifths of the year to engage in labor or from other mo- tives. There were employed in that year 122, ,O56 male teachers and 260,- 954 female teachers. There has been a decrease in the number of male teach CTS since 1880 and the number of Ia <aa l. l.
 cent in that period The number of schoolhouses in 1893 was 235, 426, valued, with their contents and appurtenances, at S308, ,435, 039. The school revenue for that year was S165, coo, coo; the total expenditures were S163, 900, 900. Of this amount S1O4, 100000 was paid for teachers wages; 1000, 900 for the construction of schoolhouses, and Ses,- GOO, 900 for fuel, supplies, etc.
 There were 451 universities and col leges for men and for both sexes; of these BIO were co-educational, an in- crease of 8 per cent. in two years. The total number of instructors was 10,247. and of pupils 140,O53 Colleges for women alone mum bered 143, with 9, IA teachers and %, 949 students
 As result of professional educa- tion in the year. there were gradu- ated 4,911 medical students, 2,S52 den- tai students, 3,394 pharmacists, 6,776 law students and 7,s36 theological students The amount appropriated by states for the support of normal schools that year was S1, 452,91 and for buildings SS16,s2O
 Other contents of the report include a review of systems of education in foreign countries; reports in connec- tion with the International Congress of Education at the Worlds fair; criticisms on American education by representatives of the Ger man government at Chicago, and an article on ''rhe Education of the Negro, It's Characteristics and Facili- ties" contributed by Mir. Welford Ad- dis, who takes the ground that there are three features which distinguish the education of the American negro and to large extent differentiate it from that of the white people among whom he lives. These facts are, first, the cost of the education of the negro is borne by the white portion of the community; second, this education is almost elementary; third, it is becom- ing more industrial in character.