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CHAPTER II.-EDUCATIONAL LEGISLATION, SIXTIETH CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION.
Statistics from the report of the superintendent of public instruction...
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Appointment of Dr. M. G. Brumbaugh as commissioner of education.
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CHAPTER VII.-EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS IN THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC AND CHILE.
Influence of educational work of the United States in Cuba, Porto Rico, and the Philippines..
Demand for competent instructors..
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APPENDIX I.-Historical sketch of education in the Argentine Republic..
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Education in Buenos Aires and the coast, the viceroyalty of Rio de la Plata, during the nineteenth
century....
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Education in Argentina in the second half of the nineteenth century.
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Character of modern Argentine education....
APPENDIX II.-A brief survey of educational conditions in Chile in 1908..
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CHAPTER VIII.-EDUCATION IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.
Topical outline..
Statistical summary.
Education in England.
Legislative measures.
Administrative activities.
Administrative difficulties of the dual system of schools.
Demand for smaller areas for local administration..
Movement for promoting rural education....
Measures affecting teachers..............
The staffing of elementary schools..
Recent changes in training colleges for teachers..
Extension of the system of state-aided education
Scholastic extension of the system
Discussions of curricula..........
Expenditure for public elementary education.
Report of the interdepartmental committee on partial exemption from school attendance
Statistical summaries....
Report of the consultative committee on attendance, compulsory or otherwise, at continuation
schools...
Reports of the poor-law commission and the royal commission on the feeble-minded..
Recent publications of special interest by the board of education (England).
Education in Scotland..
The act of 1908..
Present conditions..
Education in Ireland.
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CHAPTER IX.-EDUCATION IN FRANCE.
Criticisms of the official programmes.
Provision for prolonging the education of the people..
Relation between higher primaries and practical schools of commerce and industry.
Agencies for the continuation of popular education.
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Opinions of professors as to the relative value of the several courses of study.
Conference on the state of literary studies..
CHAPTER X.-EDUCATION IN CENTRAL EUROPE.
Introduction...
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School expenditure of the different German States compared with their entire expenditure.
Elementary schools in Austria.
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School legislation in certain German States..
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Teachers' salaries in Prussia....
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The work of school physicians....
Elementary schools in Budapest...
Cost of secondary schools in Germany..
New ministerial regulations concerning instruction in Prussian elementary schools.
The school of the future a school for work..
Results of school education in Prussia..
Gymnastics in German schools....
Coeducation in the public schools of Prussia..
Children's memory and their capacity to learn.
Examination of women school principals in Prussia.
Education of weak-minded children in Germany.
Crippled children in Germany..
Care of dependent children in Prussia.
Feeding school children in Bavaria..
Taking care of children's teeth in school..
Years of service and ages of annuitants in Germany.
The ages of Prussian teachers...
Illiteracy in Europe....
Illiteracy and inventiveness.
The educational situation in Hungary.
Conference of teachers of continuation schools.
Three systems of continuation schools in Prussia...
Industrial continuation schools.
Commercial continuation schools.
Rural continuation schools..
Rural high schools in Denmark.........
Graduates of secondary schools in Germany.
New agencies of higher education in Germany.
Resolutions of German university professors...
Participation of the German States in university attendance.
Chairs of pedagogy in German universities.
University libraries in Prussia..
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LIST OF COLLege and StudENT PERIODICALS CURRENTLY RECEIVED BY THE LIBRARIES IN THE DIS-
TRICT OF COLUMBIA..
CHAPTER XV.-EDUCATIONAL DIRECTORY.
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Chief state school officers..
City superintendents.....
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Presidents of universities and colleges for men and for both sexes, and of schools of technology.
Presidents of colleges for women..
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Professors of pedagogy and heads of departments of pedagogy in universities and colleges..
Principals of normal schools...
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