Report of the Commissioner of Education for the Year 1884-&apos;85
Author: Department of the Interior, Bureau of Education (ED)
Date: 1886-00-00
Type: Historical Materials
Subjects: Recess Breaks,State Legislation,Educational Demand,School Statistics,Enrollment,Attendance,Teachers,Compulsory Education,African American Education,Illiteracy,Industrial Education,Educational Finance,Financial Support,Urban Schools,Rural Schools,Tests,Discipline,Textbooks,Athletics,Tenure,Educational Administration,Music Education,Singing,Public Schools,Superintendents,Schools of Education,Business Schools,Kindergarten,Secondary School Students,Secondary Schools,College Preparation,High Schools,Instructional Improvement,Womens Education,Universities,Colleges,Graduate Study,Undergraduate Study,Alumni,College Graduates,Science Education,Exhibits,Special Schools,Cooking Instruction,Theological Education,Law Schools,Medical Schools,Academic Degrees,Nursing Education,Deafness,Blindness,Intellectual Disability,Special Education,Foreign Countries

The Commissioner of Education presents facts relating to State reports, recess or no recess, school legislation; statistics of correspondents of the Bureau; growth of education in the United States; school ages, summary of statistics of State systems; summary of the statistics of the last ten years; school population, enrollment, and average attendance; comparative view of school attendance in the more densely populated States; defective administration of common schools; status of the teaching force; supervision of country schools; graded course of study; compulsory attendance. Also presented are the summary of the educational condition of the Union; education of the colored race; statistics of institutions for the education of the colored race; teachers for colored schools; illiteracy in the South; industrial training for colored youth; the Peabody fund; the John F. Slater fund; summary of statistics of city systems; table of average expenses per capita for city schools, school population, enrollment, and attendance in cities. Also included are reports on examinations; an experiment in discipline; supervision; free text books and stationery; gymnastics; tenure of office of teachers; administration, the teaching of vocal music in public schools; statistics relating to city superintendents; summary of statistics of normal schools; appropriations for normal schools; character of normal training; information concerning particular schools; teachers' institutes, etc.; summary of statistics of commercial and business colleges; summary of statistics of kindergarten; general statistical summary of pupils receiving secondary instruction; summary of statistics of institutions for secondary instruction; summary of statistics of preparatory schools; public high schools; measures for improving secondary instruction; overwork in secondary schools; statistical summary of students in classical and scientific preparatory courses; statistical summary of students in institutions for superior instruction; summary of statistics of institutions for the superior instruction of women; summary of statistics of universities and colleges; distinction between colleges and universities; movements in certain colleges, graduate departments; the university of the nineteenth century; colleges whose main work is in the undergraduate department; catalogues of American colleges; statistics of alumni of colleges and universities; summary of statistics of schools of science; classification of scientific students in a number of institutions; meaning of the expression, &quot;industrial education,&quot; the Workingman's School, New York; experiments in connection with city public schools; exercises of universal application; exhibitions of industrial work by school children; industrial training in normal schools, in the South; special schools; instruction in cookery; summary of statistics of schools of theology; summary of statistics of schools of law; summary of statistics of schools of medicine, etc.; statistical summary of all degrees conferred; summary of statistics of training schools for nurses; education of the deaf and dumb; summary of statistics of institutions for the deaf and dumb; education of the blind; summary of statistics of schools for the blind; education of the feeble-minded; summary of statistics of schools for feeble minded youth; statistical summary of benefactions; list of historical societies in the United States; education in foreign countries, recommendations, and appropriations needed. Abstracts and an index are included.