The data presented in this bulletin were furnished, for the most part, by the various State departments of public instruction, on the Bureau of Education blanks. The statistics for Kansas and for Missouri were obtained entirely from printed State school reports, those for Iowa largely from printed reports, and those from Mississippi were obtained…

This report contains statistics of public and of private kindergartens for the school year 1923-24. Increases appear in the number of kindergartens, number of teachers, and in the number of pupils enrolled, over those reported in 1922. The largest increase is in California, where the kindergarten enrollment increased 29 percent during this…

This report presents long-range projections of the number of degrees that will be earned at institutions of higher education in the United States and its outlying areas. Projections by level of degree are provided for total degrees and for certain selected fields of study for the years 1965, 1970, and 1975, as well as for the 5-year periods…

This bulletin is the fourteenth in this series of publications issued biennially by the Office of Education. The bulletin is prepared on the basis of responses given by Federal Departments and Agencies to requests for information about Federal expenditures for educational programs. Through this series of publications, the Office of Education has…

The report of the agricultural and mechanical colleges for the year 1916-17 has more than ordinary significance on account of the important relation of those institutions to the war. From the beginning they have cooperated closely with the Government in furnishing a large quota of men with military training. Courses have been added which will…

This bulletin contains the statistics of private commercial and business schools for 1928-29. There is a noticeably constant fluctuation in the list of private commercial and business schools. Out of a list of approximately 1,850 private commercial schools of which the Office of Education had record during the period from June, 1925, to June,…

Information concerning educational conditions in the southern Appalachian region is scattered, fragmentary, and often partisan to the assumption either that conditions are ideal or that they are inconceivably bad. The purpose of this study is to draw together the available facts in the case. Necessarily, this study is largely statistical. The…

An average of 1,000 school consolidations were formed yearly; public money spent for pupil transportation increased about three and one-half million dollars annually; and the number of one-room schools in the United States decreased about 4,500 a year, during the period from 1918 to 1922. These are the rates at which three important movements in…

This report contains 1922 statistics of schools and classes for feeble-minded and subnormal children. With regard to administration, three types of schools for mentally defective children are represented in this report: (1) State institutions; (2) private institutions; and (3) city day schools. This year (1922) the statistics show a total of 214…

For the 1921-22 school year 1,963 private high schools and academies sent to the bureau schedules complete enough to include in this bulletin. The number of schools reporting decreased about 6 per cent since 1920. This decrease can not be charged to any particular type of control. There is a substantial increase in the number of graduates from…

This report contains statistics of nurse-training schools for the year 1926-27. The principal items included are: Number of schools; number of nurse-training pupils; number of graduates; bed capacity of the hospitals maintaining the schools; average number of patients in these hospitals, length of the nurse-training course; admission requirements,…

The list of 52 institutions included in these tables is not sharply defined. In general it includes, in addition to fully organized state and territorial universities, such other institutions of higher education as are supported, at least in part, by the several States. It does not include state normal schools nor high schools. Of the 82…

The present publication is the 87th issue of the annual statistical report by the Office of Education on land-grant colleges and universities. The first issue presented data for the academic year 1869-70; this issue carries the series through 1955-56. The series is distinguished, first, by its long history of 87 years, and second, by the scope of…

This report contains statistics for 1926-27 of schools for delinquents. The institutions are of a reformatory nature, and receive inmates committed to their care by juvenile and other courts. Reports were received from 158 institutions out of 173 believed to exist. The number of instructors reported for the year is 1,488, of which number 582 are…

The included tables present the statistics of 2,093 private high schools and academies in the continental United States and of 4 such schools in Hawaii and Puerto Rico. Throughout the summary tables the totals for the United States do not include the statistics of these 4 schools in the outlying possessions. No reports from private high schools…