United States Report of the Commissioner of Education for the Year 1880

Abstract

ANOTHER valuable survey of education in the United States has been published, relating to the year 1880; a survey made by the Bureau whose duty and purpose, it is laid down, shall be “to collect statistics and facts showing the condition and progress of education in the several States and Territories, and to diffuse such information respecting the organisation and management of schools and school systems and methods of teaching, as shall aid the people of the United States in the establishment and maintenance of efficient school systems, and otherwise promote the cause of education throughout the country.” The Bureau has no authority, it tells us, and seeks none, to interfere with school organisation, but aims to report institutions precisely as they are; and the variety of experiments tried in the States, which in kindred and spirit of government are so close to our own, must make this publication a repertory of experiences of the utmost value to the English educationalist.

United States Report of the Commissioner of Education for the Year 1880.

(Washington: Government Printing Office, 1882.)