Education in the homeopathic schools of medicine is under the direct guidance of the American Institute of Homeopathy, and the requirements of the American Federation of State Medical Examiners Boards are fulfilled in all details, so that graduates may comply with the requirements of all the States and Territorial possessions. There were 45 more…

Discusses the availability of school enrollment data from 120 countries for the period 1870-1980. Concludes from the data that growth in education was steady prior to 1940 and increased sharply after 1950. Suggests that the emergence of the nation state model and the centrality of education in the model contributed to the acceleration. (SG)

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…

Documents the development of two-year colleges in the United States during the 1920s and discusses the following trends: the early dominance of private institutions and the post-World War I rise of public two-year colleges, their extraordinary growth rate, and their concentration in the Midwest and the South. (GC)

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…

Black colleges were founded, amid hostility and with few resources, first in the North in the antebellum period, and then in the South in the Reconstruction period. Money has always been a problem. Recently Black colleges have been threatened by trends toward dismantling separate education of Blacks and Whites. (Author/MC)

Chronicles the history of racial separation in North Carolina's system of higher education. Shows that desegregation progress has been minimal and stresses the importance of strengthening the educational program at predominantly Black North Carolina A & T in order to better serve all students. (GC)

A national study showed that increased exposure of White pupils to Black pupils substantially affects the demography of school systems and leads to reductions in White enrollment. However, White enrollment losses appear to be short term, limited primarily to the year a desegregation program is implemented. (Author/RM)

A study using historical statistics as a strategy for joining the study of the past and present condition of colleges and universities has as subjects Amherst College, Harvard University, Transylvania University, the University of Kentucky, and the College of William and Mary. (MSE)

This bulletin presents tables in summarized form of the statistics of public and of private kindergartens in the various States. The detailed statistics, which are summarized in Tables 3 and 4 are given for individual cities and towns in the report on statistics of city school systems for 1919-20. This summarized report is prepared for the use of…

A new perspective on American colleges and universities in the nineteenth century is presented. Attention is directed to denominational colleges, colleges by region, and student groups, including such issues as who attended college, enrollments, student age at college entrance, geographic origins, parental occupations, subsequent careers, and…

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…

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 review of adult vocational education in Canada includes an introduction, highlights in the history of adult vocational education in Canada, and a summary. The introduction considers what adult vocational education is and explains the relationship between Canada's constitution and education. The highlights section covers these periods: before…

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,…