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,…

Previously, the statistics of nurse training schools were included with those of theology, law, medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, and veterinary science in the chapter of the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Education devoted to professional education. This year (1918), the statistics of the other professional schools are included in the chapter…

This bulletin details developments in nursing education since 1918. The following sections are included: (1) The situation in nursing before 1918; (2) The demands of the war and how they were met; (3) Decline in applicants following the war; (4) The work of student nurses in hospitals; (5) Hours of duty in hospitals; (6) Health, recreation, and…

This report contains summaries by States, but no detailed statistics of individual schools. Such statistics were published in Bureau of Education Bulletin, 1918, No. 73, and only slight changes have occurred since that document was printed. Graphic and interpretative treatment of the data in this bulletin will appear in a bulletin to be published…

Bulletins containing educational statistics for 1925-26 have been issued and cover the following topic areas: (1) State School Systems (1927, No. 39); (2) City School Systems (1927, No. 32); (3) Public High Schools (1927, No. 33); (4) Private High Schools (1927, No. 31); (5) Teachers Colleges and Normal Schools (1927, No. 30); (6) Universities,…

Volume IV of the 1916-18 Biennial Survey of Education covers the following topic areas: (1) Statistics of Normal Schools; (2) Statistics of Public High Schools; (3) Private High Schools and Academies; (4) Private Commercial and Business Schools; (5) Summer Schools; (6) Nurse Training Schools; (7) Schools and Classes for the Blind; (8) Schools for…

In the biennium 1926-1928 the three hundredth anniversary of the founding of modern physiology was celebrated. A tercentenary is an exceedingly small fraction of the time since man discovered the use of fire, invented clothes and houses, and began to huddle together under conditions which have rendered knowledge of hygiene imperative to his…

The statistical survey in this bulletin includes a general summary of the statistics showing the enrollment in public and private schools and institutions of various types, the estimated expenditures for those schools in 1919-20, the distribution of teachers among those schools, and certain combined statistics of public and private high schools…

This report is made in accordance with the provisions of the land-grant act of 1862 and the Morrill-Nelson Acts of 1890 and 1907, which charge the Secretary of the Interior with the proper administration of those funds. There are now 69 land-grant colleges in the United States and outlying possessions. Thirty-five of these institutions, located in…

At the beginning of the decennium 1910-1920 specialized courses in home economics were maintained in the land-grant institutions in the New England states, except Massachusetts, and Connecticut; in New York, at Cornell University; in Pennsylvania at Pennsylvania State College, and all of the states north of the Ohio River and west of the Allegheny…

The Commissioner of Education presents an education-progress review, and discusses compulsory education; national education aid; work of the commissioner's office; education statistical summaries; nurse-training schools; states' education duties; results of five years' compulsory education in Great Britain; industrial day schools; the Boston…

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…

The statistical survey presented in this bulletin includes a general summary of statistics, showing the enrollment in public and private schools and institutions of various types, the estimated expenditures for those schools in 1919-20, the distribution of teachers among those schools, and certain combined statistics of public and private high…

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 this report, the Commissioner of Education presents a general review of the U.S. educational condition, discusses the work of the Commissioner's office, and offers summaries of education statistics, using diagrams. Also provided are a summary of educational condition in the states and territories and comparative statistics and remarks on…