Report of the Commissioner of Education Made to the Secretary of the Interior for the Year ... with Accompanying Papers, Volume 1

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1915
 

Contents

Interesting the community
89
Openair schools
95
Conference of State rural school supervisors
101
The county unit
116
Free textbooks
122
Why improvement of high schools is slow
128
The junior high school
135
HIGHER EDUCATION
159
The New England college entrance certificate board and the State departments of education
163
Surveys of higher educational institutions
170
Action of educational associations
177
New tendencies in engineering educationtheir bearing on the arts curriculum
188
Graduate courses in public health 214
191
Colleges having higher entrance requirements
195
Development by limitation
202
Entrance to college by examination
208
Hospital interneships for recent medical graduates
216
Homeopathic medical research
222
Law schools versus law offices in legal training
228
Methods of teaching
235
Training teachers for vocational education
242
Investigations and surveys
249
Activities of organizations interested in vocational education
267
New positions created
277
Conclusion
289
Agricultural education at meetings of the year
302
Educational work of the Department of Agriculture
312
EDUCATION FOR THE HOME
319
Local progress in education for the home
337
Kindergarten PROGRESS 191314
345
Testing the value of the kindergarten
351
Dr Montessori visits America
361
Hospitals educate mothers
367
Work of womens clubs in better home making
373
Schools of design
379
Normal art schools
385
Professional art schools classified by subjects
392
Page
401
Civic education of the immigrant
408
Civic aspects of vocational education
415
Educational meetings
421

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