The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-12-18
EDUCATION IN 1916.

l s.lxks tending schools of some kind In the
attra united states IN l9io' aoeo'u'"s - %.
! wo, Inmates of the United States bureau
l ;eton Of education. This means declares
\ desl the annual report OF the commissioner
N ayy of education, "that approximately "A
end per cent of the inhabitants OF the
g United States are attending school, as
compared with 19 per cent in Great
mn, Britain, II per cent In France, 20 per
bock, cent in Germany, and a little over 4
X id an per cent in Russia" The bureau
sgu points out, however, that the result is
OK much less favorable to the United
rVs's States If daily attendance. rather than
~ !, enrolment, is taken as the basis for
~ RI comparison, since some of the other
is nations have getter attendance and a
over longer school term than the United
4 by States.
The number Of pupils in kindergar-
}E~k- ten and elementary schools rose from
: 16900,000 in 1910 to 1895 900 in 1914,
| Dag an increase of more than a million in
| MlmNa four years. In the same period the
---- number Of public high school students
Increased from 915,000 to 1,219OoO
and for 1915 the corresponding figure
was 1829,OO0 AS the result OF this
increase of 10000 In public high
- school students the total number Of
s students in the $4,000 high schools Of
~ all kinds increased TO a million and a
14sN half OF the 11.674 public high schools
~M reported, S4i0 had full four-year cours-
es. Approximately 90 per cent of all
4 = public high school students are in four
%SsM year high schools.
N The report analyses the number Of
kN8 teachers in the United States show
| MI Ing that Of the 100000 teachers. 1863, 900
n were men and $4,000 women. The
r---- Sumber OF men teachers has increas-
ed very slightly since 1900; the num-
..uu. ber OF women teachers has almost
- doubled. IN public elementary schools
the number OF men teachers has de-
st,o, creased 20 per cent since 1900, while
h IL the number Of women teachers has in
ST creased per cent In 1900 teaching
la positions in public high schools were
par evenly divided between men and wo-
Fn men AT the present time women out.
number the men by 5000 The aver
l,., age annual salary Of all teachers is
n $525. The figure is highest in the
+, Ia east and north Atlantic states, with
sshIn $500 and 1896 respectively, and lowest
he IN the south Atlantic states (S329) 1t
bag varies from 1924 In Mississippi to $S71
hai in California and 500 IN New yorl,
Expenditures for education in 1914,
q .a, 4 partly estimated, totaled close to $780,
tor 100000. An estimate, making due al.
row lowances for the intervening two years
ne and for items necessarily omitted
\ would easily bring the nations cur.
~ rent educational expenditure to bill
lion dollars Public elementary
aur schools cost in 1915 approximately
kmnn $500000,00O; public high schools, $7O,-
=. 100000; private elementary schools
n>JJ $52Oo0,00O; private secondary schools,
~ sl5,O00,000; universities, colleges and
x professional schools, Si0O.0O00,O00
1f normal schools, $i5.O00000.
4 rs OF the s555.O77146 actually reported
for public schools in 1914, $S9S,511 1O4
was by the north Atlantic and north
central states. New York expended
s66000,000; Pennsylvania, S520O0,000
.Ss Illinois, $39.0073l4; Ohio $35,l72950;
1. California, s26,579,S04; Massachusetts,
$25,492,292; and New Jersey, S2S,2S4..
096. Six states, New Hampshire, Yer.
o.s mont Delaware, Wyoming, New Mex
.r,s leo, and Nevada, with an expenditure
He for education Of s1O07; Idaho expend.
re ed 1896 per capita Of population;
IS North Dakota, S9.62 Montana, $3.50;
IKE Arizona, 1898; and Washington, $3.50;
'ne while Mississippi spent s1.4s. South
u Carolina $1,SS, Alabama Sl97, and
~ ~ Georgia S19S.
te Gifts and bequests to education
Th amounted to sSLS57,S9S in 1914. Of
fl which S26,67O,O17 was for universities
'e and colleges, sl,55S.2S1 for theological
7 schools, and sl,495,77S for law schools
W. Since 1896 sums aggregating s4o7,.
IN 100000 have been given to educational
n. institutions by private donors.
M In discussing educational move
be ments the report points out that most
brn of the recent contributions are in the
erl domain Of practice rather than in the
~ ory. The report declares: There
III seems to be clearer vision as to the