Report of the Commissioner of Education for the Year 1895-96. Volume 2. Containing Part II

Overview & Synopsis

This is Volume 2 of the Report of the Commissioner of Education for the Year 1895-96, containing Part II. Topics covered include: (1) Education in Sweden and Iceland; (2) Typical Institutions Offering Manual or Industrial Training; (3) Higher and Secondary Education in the United States; (4) Mental Fatigue in School; (5) How Agriculture is Taught in Prussia and France; (6) Industrial Education in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland; (7) Recent Efforts in Europe for the Advancement and Improvement of Agriculture; (8) Colleges Endowed by Congress for the Benefit of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts; (9) The Bertillon System as a Means of Suppressing the Business of Living by Crime; (10) Current Discussions; (11) Current Questions; (12) Art Decorations in Schoolrooms; (13) List of Foreign Universities; (14) Educational Matters of Interest in Various States; (15) Report on Education in Alaska; (16) Necrology; (17) City School Systems; (18) Statistics of Secondary Schools; (19) Statistics of Normal Schools; (20) Statistical Review of Higher Education; (21) Statistical Review of Professional Schools; (22) Commercial and Business Schools; (23) Education of the Colored Race; (24) Schools for the Defective Classes; and (25) Reform Schools. [For "Report of the Commissioner of Education for the Year 1895-96. Volume 1. Containing Part I," see ED622094.]