This bulletin presents the report of an inquiry into the administration and support of the Colorado school system. It begins with a discussion of the state of Colorado and its educational system. Next, it presents a summary of the following recommendations: (1) recommendations relating to general administration; (2) recommendations concerning…

The development of pension systems for public-school teachers in the United States has been both recent and rapid. A beginning of their establishment was made in the latter part of the nineteenth century, and today, after 30 years, very few States are without some form of a teachers' pension system. The purpose of the present study of pension…

A school health program is usually thought of as comprising three broad areas: (1) health education, including both separate and integrated instruction; (2) healthful school environment, including both physical and social aspects; and (3) school health services. The study reported here deals with the school health service area of the school health…

The war has served to accentuate many marked weaknesses in the nation's rural school system. For years devoted leaders in this important educational field have carried forward a propaganda to enlist local and national interest in the matter, and not altogether without success. In many sections of the country splendid schools have been organized…

The initiation and development of public education in the Philippine Islands is unique in modern educational history. Probably only among a people with an enthusiastic belief in the significance of education, under the benevolent guidance of a nation with an equally enthusiastic confidence in its possibilities, could the educational experiment…

The biennial survey presents statistics and discussion on broad-range education, state school systems, city school systems, and higher education for 1943-44. Topics include administrative units, enrollment, graduates, teachers, negro schools, school survival rates, educational attainment, funding and expenditures, property and endowments,…

On November 3, 1929, C. L. Starr, president of the Oregon State Board of Higher Education, requested that a survey be made of State institutions of higher learning, including normal schools. The five institutions involved were the University of Oregon, the Oregon State College, and the normal schools at Monmouth, Ashland, and La Grande. The…

This bulletin presents a summary of the laws relating to education enacted by the following legislative sessions: 1910: Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Rhode Island, South Carolina, and Virginia; 1911: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia,…

This bulletin presents the results of a study on the special problems of education for Indians in Oklahoma. During the months of April and May of 1922, a committee of Oklahoma educators, under the direction of the Bureau of Education, conducted a series of educational tests and measurements in public schools in various parts of the State. The…

This biennial survey presents statistics and discussion on broad-range education, state school systems, city school systems, and higher education for 1945-46. Topics include administrative units, consolidation and transportation, enrollment across education sectors, high school and college graduates, state school system data, higher education,…

An accurate and comprehensive study of college standards and resources has been needed for many years. Such a study should help college officers in one part of the country to evaluate credentials presented by students from institutions in other parts. It should assist parents to select wisely the institutions to which they shall send their…

The data presented in this report relate to schools supported by public funds, and include kindergartens, elementary grades, and high schools. Increases are noted in 1924 over 1920 both in numbers and in percentage enrollments. Although the general increase in enrollment in 1924 is about 4.3 per cent over that of 1922, seven States, Delaware,…

In April, 1919, at the request of the Board of Education of Memphis, Tennessee, the United States Commissioner of Education submitted the conditions on which the Bureau of Education would make a survey of the public school system of that city. This study of the Memphis schools is intended to be a study of policies and practices; not of persons.…

It is generally recognized that the organization of satisfactory schools, attendance area, and local units of school administration involves a careful study of existing educational conditions. If satisfactory functioning of units proposed is to be assured, the study must consider functions of schools and local school units, services now rendered…

Education is an open-end process. It can, and should be, lifelong, and schools should leave the door open to all who are eager to learn--adults as well as children and young people. Our public schools are meeting this community responsibility in more and more ways--among them the evening school, which pioneered in adult education and continues to…