Annual Report Of The Commissioner Of Education

Excerpt from Report of the Commissioner of Education, 1917, Vol. 1 It shall be the duty of the Commissioner of Education to present annually to Con gress a report embodying the results of his investigations and labors, together with a statement of such facts and recommendations as will, in his judgment, subserve the purpose for which this department is established. From 1867 to 1889 (except in 1869 when no report was issued) the annual reports of the commissioner were issued in one volume. Since 1889 they have been issued in two volumes. Prior to 1906 the annual reports were the only publications of the bureau except certain very valuable circulars of information and occasional leaflets and administrative documents. Since 1906 a large part of the results of the studies and investigations of the bureau have been published in the form of bulletins, the annual issue of which has increased from 3 in 1906 to 50 in 1916, and in leaflets and multi graphed letters, the number of which has increased greatly in recent years. The publication of the bulletins has made it possible to reduce the size of the volumes of the reports and to make their con tents more homogeneous. Beginning with the report for 1913, it has been the policy of the commissioner to make Volume I of the report for each year a comprehensive interpretative review of the more important phases of the progress of education in the United States and all other countries, and Volume II a statistical summary of the schools and other educational agencies of the United States. The experience of four years has shown very cleraly that such a review and such a summary can be made more effectively for biennial than for annual periods. Inquiries among education Officers and others directly interested in these reports have confirmed the belief that such a biennial survey Will be more acceptable to most of these, first, because it can be made more comprehensive and accurate, and, second, because it will relieve them of the burden of making annual statistical reports to the bureau. It has therefore been decided that beginning With the fiscal year 1919 such a biennial summary will be issued as an administrative document. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.