Report of the Commissioner of Education for the Year 1882-&apos;83
Author: Department of the Interior, Bureau of Education (ED)
Date: 1884-00-00
Type: Historical Materials
Subjects: Public Agencies,Publications,Teachers,Students,Enrollment,Attendance,Public School Teachers,Teacher Salaries,Public Schools,Income,Expenditures,Educational Finance,Compulsory Education,School Law,African American Education,Urban Schools,School Statistics,Truancy,Urban Teaching,Grading,Evening Programs,Schools of Education,High Schools,Teacher Education,Foreign Countries,Business Schools,Kindergarten,Secondary School Students,College Preparation,Womens Education,Higher Education,Universities,Colleges,Science Education,Industrial Arts,Agricultural Education,Mechanics (Process),Vocational Education,Engineering Education,Theological Education,Industrial Education,Law Schools,Medical Schools,Dentistry,Pharmaceutical Education,Academic Degrees,Public Libraries,Nursing Education,Deafness,Special Schools,Blindness,Intellectual Disability,Correctional Education,Child Welfare,Financial Support,Intellectual Property,Furniture,Forestry

In this thirteenth annual report, the Commissioner of Education discusses the Bureau of Education's work, with a list of its publications from the year. The Commissioner also presents summary data of institutions, instructors, and students; school age, population, enrolment, and attendance; legal school ages in the United States; teachers employed in the public schools and their average monthly salaries, annual income and expenditure for public schools. The following are also included and discussed: summary of per capita expenditure; statistical generalization by years and topics; compulsory school laws; summary of the educational condition of the States and Territories; comparative statistics of education in the South, with figures respecting the education of the colored race; Peabody fund; summary of school statistics of cities; school population, accommodation, and attendance in cities; truancy in cities; tendencies in urban school instruction; grading in city schools; evening schools in cities and city school finances; school system of Washington, D.C.; summary of normal school statistics; appropriations for normal schools; observations of Dr. McLellan, inspector of high schools in Ontario, respecting normal school instruction in the United States; normal instruction in New York State; pedagogics in universities and colleges; provision in other countries for training teachers; summary of statistics of commercial and business colleges; summary of statistics of Kindergarten; charity work of Kindergarten; public schools and Kindergarten; French view of American Kindergarten work; summary of statistics of pupils receiving secondary (including preparatory) instruction; summary of statistics of preparatory schools; secondary instruction in Great Britain; overwork in secondary schools in Germany; summary of statistics of institutions for the superior education of women; higher education of women in Great Britain and on the continent; summary of statistics of universities and colleges; summary of statistics of schools of science; preparation for industrial arts; education in agriculture; instruction in practical mechanics; manual training schools; electrical engineering; Rose Polytechnic Institute; institutions needed for industrial education; summary of statistics of schools of theology; summary of statistics of schools of law; summary of statistics of schools of medicine, dentistry, and pharmacy; review of progress in medical education; medical schools for the colored race; medical school of Harvard University; summary of statistics of degrees conferred; summary of statistics of public libraries; 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; visit of Dr. Wm. Moon; summary of statistics of schools for the feeble-minded; summary of statistics of reform schools; protection of foreign-born children; summary of statistics of orphan homes and asylums; summary of educational benefactions; summary of educational publications; summary of patents for improvements in school furniture; education in foreign countries; technical instruction in Europe; Public Industrial Art School of the City of Philadelphia; congresses and exhibitions; forestry; forthcoming publications of the Bureau of Education; and recommendations. Abstracts and an index are included.