Report of the Commissioner of Education for the Year 1902. Volume 2

Overview & Synopsis

Volume 2 covers Puerto Rican education; Alaskan education; the 12th annual report on the introduction of domestic reindeer into Alaska (ED613561); city school statistics; information and statistics on universities, colleges, technological schools, professional schools, agricultural and mechanical colleges, normal schools, secondary schools, manual and industrial training, commercial and business schools, nursing schools, education of the colored race, reform schools, and schools for the defective classes including the blind, deaf, and feeble-minded. Chapter XLVI presents a statistical report on public school students with defective sight and hearing. Chapter XLVII addresses education of the feeble-minded in the United States, with discussion of several schools and institutions for feeble-minded children, youth, and women, as well as public school courses. Subsequent chapters cover changes in college-graduation age, the National Education Association superintendence committee school statistics report, education in the Philippines, public and private kindergartens, and U.S. illiteracy. Chapter LIII's current topics include compulsory attendance and child labor laws, school consolidation and pupil transportation, teachers' pensions, foreign students in German universities, higher commercial education, certain cities' school officer and instructional supervisor salaries, corporal punishment, public school temperance instruction, education benefactions, coeducation, free textbooks, Cuban and Mexican education, Japanese school, library, book, and periodical statistics, the General Education Board, education as a factor in success, Tulane University's founder's day celebration, religious exercises in public schools, and foreign countries' elementary education statistics. [For Volume 1, see ED620498.]