Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-01-07

United States in 1916, according tC
estimates of the United States Bureau
of Education. This means" declares
the Annual Report of the Commission
OF of Education. that approximately q
per cent of the inhabitants of the
United States are attending school, as
compared with 10 per cent in Great
Britain, II per cent in France, 20 per
cent in Germany, and little over 3
Fer cent in Russia" The Bureau
points out, however, that the result is
much less favorable to the United
States if daily attendance, rather than
enrolment, is taken as the basis for
comparison, since some of the other
nations have better attendance and a
longer school term than the United
States.
The number of pupils in public kim
dergarten and elementary schools rose
from 100000 in 1910 to 17,935.OO0 in
1914, an increase of more than mil
lion in four years. In the same period
the number of public high schol stu
dents increased from $4,000 to 1,219,-
600; and for 1915 the corresponding
figure was 1,329,000. AS the result of
this increase of 10000 in public high
schol students the total number of
students in the $4,000 high schols of all
kinds increased to a million and
half. Of the II ,674 public high schools
reported 8,440 had full four-year
courses. Approximately SO per cent OF
all public high school students are
four-year high schools.
The report analyses the number Of
teachers in the United States, showing
that of the 100000 teachers, 10000
were men and $4,000 women. The
number of men teachers has increased
very slightly since 1900; the number OF
women teachers has almost doubled.
In public elementary schools the num-
Der of men teachers has decreased 20
Per cent since 1900, while the number
of women teachers has increased 8
per cent. In 1900, teaching positions in
public high schools were evenly divid-
ed between men and women. At the
present time women outnumber the
men by 5000. The average annual
col Of oil SC
figure is highest in the East and North
Atlantic States, with $500 and $685.,
respectively, and lowest in the South
Atlantic States ($329J. 1t varies from
1924 in Mississippi to 1871 in Californ-
il, and $941 in New York.
Cost of Education.
Expenditures for education in 1917.
partly estimated, totaled close to-
$500, 900 900. An estimate, making due
allowances for the intervening two
years and for items necessarily omi-
tied, would easily bring the nations
current educational expenditures to a
billion dollars. Public elementary
schools cost in 1851 approximately
$500, 100000; public high schols, $70,-
100000; private elementary schools,
$50. ,0000,000; private secondary
schools, $15,000,000; universities, col
leges and professional schools, $780,
100000; normal schools, $15,OO0,000.
Of the $555,O77.146 actually reported
for public schools in 1914, $39S,511,1 04
was by the North Atlantic and North
Central States. New York expended
S66,O00,O0O; Pennsylvania, $50 5000;
Illinois, $39,007.314; Ohio, $35,172,950;
California, $26,579, 804; Massachusetts,
S25, 1929 and New Jersey, $23,2S4,-
O96. Six states. New Hampshire, Yer
mont Delaware, Wyoming. New Mex
ico and Nevada, expended less than ST.
100000. On per capita basis Utah
ranked highest, with an expenditure
fer education of $10.07; Idaho ex-
pended 1886 per capita of population;
North Dakota, 1852; Montana, $3.50;
Arizona, $S93; and Washington, $3.50;
while Mississippi spent $1.4S. South
Carolina $1.S3 Alabama $l.97, and
Georgia $1.98.
Gifts and requests TO education
amounted to $3l ,367,3 1898 in 1914, OF
which $26,67O,017 was for universities
ard colleges, 81 ,558,2S1 for theological
schools and $L495,773 for law schools.
Since 1896 sums aggregating $407O0O.-
600 have been given to educational in
situations by private donors.
Educational Movements of the Year.
In discussing educational move
ments the report points out that most
of the recent contribution are in the
domain of practice rather than in
theory. The report declares: There
seems to be a clearer vision as to the
acSantial aims of education Educa-