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... average length of the annual school session was 143.1 days , an increase since 1870 of 11 days . In some States the length of the annual school session is very much above this aver- age . It rises , for example , to 191 days in Rhode ...
... average length of the annual school session was 143.1 days , an increase since 1870 of 11 days . In some States the length of the annual school session is very much above this aver- age . It rises , for example , to 191 days in Rhode ...
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... average productive capacity of the citizen is greatest . This can hardly be a coincidence . When the man of science ... average school period per inhabitant , taking the United States as a whole , was , in 1897 , 4.3 years . The average ...
... average productive capacity of the citizen is greatest . This can hardly be a coincidence . When the man of science ... average school period per inhabitant , taking the United States as a whole , was , in 1897 , 4.3 years . The average ...
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... average of 140.5 days in the year . The number of teach- ers employed was 130,366 males and 269,959 females , a total of 400,325 . The total value of the public school prop- erty was $ 455,948,164 , and the running expenses for the year ...
... average of 140.5 days in the year . The number of teach- ers employed was 130,366 males and 269,959 females , a total of 400,325 . The total value of the public school prop- erty was $ 455,948,164 , and the running expenses for the year ...
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... average ability made satisfac- tory kindergartners . It was impossible to go on repeating that a thing could not be done in face of the fact that it had been done , and with the success of the experiment in St. Louis recognition of the ...
... average ability made satisfac- tory kindergartners . It was impossible to go on repeating that a thing could not be done in face of the fact that it had been done , and with the success of the experiment in St. Louis recognition of the ...
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... average child not yet entered upon his seventh year . And beyond the seventh year the time of the child is too valuable to use it for other than general disciplines , reading , writing , arithmetic , etc. , and drawing . He must not ...
... average child not yet entered upon his seventh year . And beyond the seventh year the time of the child is too valuable to use it for other than general disciplines , reading , writing , arithmetic , etc. , and drawing . He must not ...
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Page 150 - It shall be the duty of the general assembly, as soon as circumstances will permit, to provide by law for a general system of education, ascending in regular gradation, from township schools to a state university, wherein tuition shall be gratis, and equally open to all.
Page 95 - Washington, a department of education, for the purpose of collecting such statistics and facts as shall show the condition and progress of education in the several States and Territories, and of diffusing such information respecting the organization 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.
Page 5 - ... all philosophical experiments that let light into the nature of things, tend to increase the power of man over matter and multiply the conveniences or pleasures of life.
Page 3 - The objects of the Association are, by periodical and migratory meetings, to promote intercourse between those who are cultivating science In different parts of America, to give a stronger and more general impulse and more systematic direction to scientific research, and to procure for the labors of scientific men increased facilities and a wider usefulness.
Page 20 - That there be granted to the several States, for the purposes hereinafter mentioned, an amount of public land, to be apportioned to each State a quantity equal to thirty thousand acres for each Senator and Representative in Congress to which the States are respectively entitled by the apportionment under the census of eighteen hundred and sixty: Provided, That no mineral lands shall be selected or purchased under the provisions of this act.
Page 26 - Territory shall be twenty-five thousand dollars, to be applied only to instruction in agriculture, the mechanic arts, the English language and the various branches of mathematical, physical, natural and economic science, with special reference to their applications in the industries of life, and to the facilities for such instruction...
Page x - For the purpose of public instruction, we hold every man subject to taxation in proportion to his property, and we look not to the question whether he himself have, or have not, children to be benefited by the education for which he pays.
Page 5 - Hartford had secured from the state legislature the incorporation of the Connecticut asylum for the education and instruction of deaf and dumb persons.
Page 5 - American asylum at Hartford for the education and instruction of the deaf and dumb...
Page 51 - ... different kinds; the adaptation and value of grasses and forage plants; the composition and digestibility of the different kinds of food for domestic animals; the scientific and economic questions involved in the production of butter and cheese; and such other researches or experiments bearing directly on the agricultural industry of the United States as may in each case be deemed advisable, having due regard to the varying conditions and needs of the respective States or Territories.