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THE Reports of the United States Commissioner of Education are known to be the most valuable publications on educational statistics and methods in the English language. The Report (1892–93), just distributed, may appear to be somewhat belated, but the contents are so instructive and exhibit so many special features, that the delay of publication may be forgiven. There are two volumes, running altogether into 2153 pages, and the amount of information contained in them is marvellous. Taking the volumes in order, we find in the first elaborate tables of statistics referring to the schools of the United States, and statistics of illiteracy for each of the States and for Europe. Then follow surveys of the educational system of Belgium, the elementary schools of Great Britain, the systems of education developed in the British Colonies, the French educational system, and a most instructive chapter on developments in the teaching of geography in Central Europe. The chapter on child-study, which practically concludes Part I. of the first volume, contains a number of interesting contributions from leading American representatives of this modern movement.
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Science for Secondary Schools. Nature 54, 308–310 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/054308a0
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