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OF THE

COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION

FOR

THE YEAR 1880.

WASHINGTON:

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.

1882.

CORRIGENDA.

Page 185. In explanation of the large increase of receipts for public schools reported for Missouri in 1879-'80, it should be mentioned that the sum given, $832,371, includes a balance on hand from the previous year.

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CONTENTS..

REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION.

General statement of the work of the office, with list of its publications

during the year, v, vi; remarks on the collection of statistics of edu-

cation throughout the United States, vii, viii; statistical summary

of institutions, instructors, and students for the last ten years, viii-

x; summary of school age, population, enrolment, attendance, &c..

xí, xii; diagram of school ages in the United States, xii; diagram

of the relation of average attendance and enrolment to school pop-

ulation, xiii; diagram of the average pay of male and female

teachers, xiv; summary of the teachers employed in the public

schools and their average monthly salaries, xv, xvi; increased com-

pleteness and value of educational reports, xvi, xvii; rural schools

and graded courses of study therein, xvii-xix; selection and ap-

pointment of teachers, xx; methods of computing average monthly

salaries, xx, xxi; summary of annual income and expenditure for

public schools, xxii, xxiii; summary of per capita expenditure,

xxiii, xxiv; teachers' tenure of office, school supervision, XXV;

women as voters and school officers, xxv, xxvi; permanent school

funds, xxvi; educational land grants by the United States to public-

land and other States, xxvi-xxxiv; examination of schools, xxxiv,

XXXV; instruction in morals, XXXV, Xxxvi; educational activity,

Xxxvi, xxxvii; text books, xxxvii; statistical generalizations by

years and topics, xxxvii-xxxix; diagram of school population, en-

rolment, and average attendance for eight years, xl; summary of

the educational condition of the States and Territories, xli-lvii;

comparative statistics of education in the South, lvii; educa-

tion of the colored race, lviii-lxiv; Peabody fund, lxv; summary of

school statistics of cities, lxvi-lxxxi; women on school boards, ser-

vice and qualifications of school boards, lxxxii; superintendents,

lxxxii, lxxxiii; attendance and school population, lxxxiii, lxxxiv;

conduct of elementary instruction, lxxxiv, lxxxv; high schools,

discipline, truant service, lxxxv; diagram of relation between

school population and enrolment and attendance in cities of over

75,000 inhabitants, lxxxvi; school-houses, schools maintained by

private effort, lxxxvii; summary of normal school statistics, with

remarks, lxxxvii-c; summary of statistics of commercial and busi-

ness colleges, c, ci; summary of statistics of Kindergärten, with re-

marks, ci-ciii; summary of statistics of secondary instruction, with

remarks, civ-cix; summary of statistics of preparatory schools, with

remarks, cix-cxi; connection of high schools with State universi-

ties, exi-cxiv; Round Hill School, exv; courses preparatory to

higher scientific study, exvi, cxvii; summary of statistics of insti-

tutions for the superior instruction of women, with remarks, cxvii-

cxxi; requisites for admission to colleges for women, cxxi, cxxii;

opportunities for higher education of women, cxxii; summary of

statistics of universities and colleges, with remarks, cxxii-cxxxi;

preparatory departments, cxxxi, cxxxii; relation of colleges or uni-

versities to public high schools and preparatory schools, cxxxii,

cxxxiii; admission requirements and college curricula, cxxxiii,

cxxxiv; college government, cxxxiv, cxxxv; universities, cxxXV,

cxxxvi; summary of statistics of schools of science, with remarks,

cxxxvi-cxxxix; recent history of agricultural colleges, cxl-cxlvi;

recent history of schools of science not endowed by the national

land grant, cxlvi-cxlviii; summary of statistics of schools of theol-

ogy, cxlviii, cxlix; summary of statistics of schools of law, with

remarks, cxlix, cl; work of law schools, cl-clii; summary of statis-

tics of schools of medicine, with remarks, clii-cly; summary of

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REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION-Continued.

statistics of degrees conferred, clv-clx; sale of collegiate and pro-

fessional degrees, clx-clxv; summary of statistics of additional

public libraries, clxvi, clxvii; summary of statistics of training

schools for nurses, with remarks, clxvii, clxviii; summary of statis-

tics of institutions for the deaf and dumb, with remarks, clxviii-

clxxiii; summary of statistics of schools for the blind, with remarks,

clxxiii-clxxviii; summary of statistics of schools for feeble-minded,

with remarks, clxxviii, clxxix; summary of statistics of reform

schools, with remarks, clxxx-clxxxv; summary of statistics of or-

phan asylums, clxxxvi, clxxxvii; summary of statistics of bene-

factions, clxxxviii, clxxxix; summary of educational publications,

clxxxix; summary of patents for improvements in school furniture,

cxc, cxcí; education in foreign countries, exci-ccxxxiv; industrial

education, ccxxxiv-ccxxxviii; popular science teaching, ccxxxviii,

ccxxxix; evening schools, ccxxxix-cexlii; United States Army

post schools, ccxlii-ccxliv; special schools for Indians, ccxlv;

summer schools, ccxlv, ccxlvi; organized charities, ccxlvi; sanita-

tion and education, ccxlvi-cexlix; color blindness and myopia,

ccxlix, cel; physiology of reading and writing, cel-celv; school-

house grounds, cclv; exemption of school property from taxation,

celv-celvii; litigation in school matters, cclvií, eelviii; instruction

in forestry, celviii-cclx; scientific investigations, cclx; graphic

methods of exhibiting education in museums, cclx-cclxi; recom-

mendations, cclxi, cclxii; conclusion, cclxii.

Abstracts of the official reports of the school officers of States, Terri-

tories, and cities, with other additional information.....

Educational associations...

STATISTICS OF EDUCATION FOR THE YEAR 1880..

TABLE I. Statistics of the school systems of the States and Territo-

II. School statistics of cities containing 7,500 inhabitants and

VI. Statistics of institutions for secondary instruction...........

VII. Statistics of preparatory schools..

VIII. Statistics of institutions for the superior instruction of

IX. Statistics of universities and colleges

X. Statistics of schools of science..

XI. Statistics of schools of theology.

XII. Statistics of schools of law

XIII. Statistics of schools of medicine, dentistry, and pharmacy.

XIV. Summary of examinations for admission to the United

States Military and Naval Academies ...

XV. Degrees conferred in 1880 by universities, colleges, scien-

tific and other professional schools, and by schools for

the superior instruction of women....

XVI. Statistics of additional public libraries numbering 300 vol-

umes or upwards...

XVII. Statistics of training schools for nurses..

XVIII. Statistics of institutions for the deaf and dumb.

XIX. Statistics of institutions for the blind......

XX. Statistics of schools and asylums for feeble-minded children

XXI. Statistics of reform schools...

XXII. Statistics of orphan asylums, soldiers' orphans' homes, in-

XXVI. Improvements in school furniture, apparatus, &c., patented

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