Report of the Commissioner of Education for the Year 1883-&apos;84
Author: Department of the Interior, Bureau of Education (ED)
Date: 1885-00-00
Type: Historical Materials
Subjects: Institutional Characteristics,Schools,Students,Teachers,Legal Responsibility,Public Schools,Teacher Salaries,Educational Finance,Income,Expenditures,School Districts,Rural Schools,Geographic Regions,Urban Schools,Elementary Schools,Teaching Methods,Vocational Education,Recess Breaks,Salaries,Principals,Higher Education,Business Schools,Kindergarten,Secondary Education,Womens Education,Postsecondary Education,Study Abroad,Intellectual Disciplines,Professional Education,Special Schools,Deaf Blind,Students with Disabilities,Foster Care,Institutionalized Persons

This is the 1883-1884 report of the Commissioner of Education. It begins with a general statement of the work of the Office, with a list of its publications during the year. Contents include: a summary of institutions, instructors, and students; summary of school age, population, enrolment, attendance; legal school ages in the several States and Territories; summary of the teachers employed in the public schools and their average monthly salaries; summary of annual income and expenditure for public schools; summary of per capita expenditure for public schools; generalization of statistics by years and by topics, with remarks; school inspection; union of districts and the township system; course of study and classification in ungraded schools; needs of sparsely settled districts; the teaching force in the public schools of the United States; rural school-houses; summary of the educational condition of the Union; education in the South; Peabody fund; John E. Slater fund; summary of school statistics of cities; instruction in primary and grammar grades in city schools; methods of teaching reading and history; industrial schools; the recess question; summary of normal school statistics, with remarks; abstract of recent correspondence about the salaries of normal school principals; pedagogics in universities and colleges; summary of statistics of commercial and business colleges, with remarks; summary of statistics of Kindergarten, with remarks; the Kindergarten and the public school system; Kindergarten meeting at Madison; summary of statistics of institutions for secondary (including preparatory) instruction, with remarks; summary of statistics of institutions for the superior instruction of women; Harvard examination for women; associations devoted to the higher education of women; coeducation; higher education of women abroad; summary of statistics of universities and colleges, with remarks; summary of persons engaged in agriculture and in manufacturing, mechanical, and mining industries in 1880; summary of statistics of schools of science; summary of statistics of theological schools; summary of statistics of law schools; summary of statistics of schools of medicine, dentistry, and pharmacy; resume of census statistics of clergymen, lawyers, physicians and surgeons, dentists, and particularly of pharmacists; summary of statistics of degrees conferred; summary of statistics of additional public libraries for 1883-84, with remarks; summary of statistics of training schools for nurses; summary of statistics of institutions for the deaf and dumb; summary of statistics of schools for the blind; summary of statistics of schools for feeble-minded youth; summary of statistics of reform schools; summary of statistics of homes and asylums for orphan or dependent children, infant asylums, and industrial schools; remarks on summaries of Tables; summary of statistics of benefactions, by States, for 18 months ending June 30, 1884, with remarks; education in foreign countries; school hygiene; International Exposition at New Orleans; and recommendations.