Report of the Commissioner of Education. 1873

Overview & Synopsis

In this report, the Commissioner of Education comments on data on city and state education, school superintendence, cost of education and police, increased attention to schoolhouse ventilation, women as school officers, women's education, the Vienna Exposition and awards to American educational exhibitors, American educators' European visits, foreign educational statistics, office correspondence, and his recommendations and conclusion. State and territorial education officers' reports are abstracted in an appendix. The state and territorial abstracts generally address elementary and secondary instruction, teacher training, superior, professional, and special instruction educational conventions, noteworthy benefactions, brief educator obituaries, and lists of school officials. Other appendices address Indian education, educational work of Sunday schools and foreign missions, and educational conventions and institutes. Special articles discuss art education, deaf-mute education, and girls' industrial training featuring practical lessons in household economies taught in Germany. Statistical tables present data on state, territorial, and city schools; normal schools commercial and business colleges; secondary education institutions; preparatory schools; institutions for the superior instruction of women; universities and colleges; schools of science, theology, law, medicine, dentistry, and pharmacy; degrees confirmed in all institutional categories; admissions examinations for the U.S. Military Academy and U.S. Naval academy; libraries; museums; institutions for the blind and for the deaf and dumb; orphan asylums; reform schools; schools and asylums for feeble-minded children; educational benefactions; educational, historical, and other publications; kindergartens; and patentees in school furniture, apparatus, and ventilation.