Report of the Commissioner of Education for the Year 1898-99. Volume 2

Volume 2 of the Commissioner's report includes a chapter on education and crime, which considers the relationship between crime and education with statistics included. The Canadian education chapter discusses the public education system, universities, current issues, technical and industrial education, and a section on Ontario education. Chapter 30, titled "[Tulane University President] William Preston Johnston's Work for a New South," covers Johnston's career at Louisiana State University and Tulane University, including his support for women's education at Tulane. Chapter 31 presents General Agent of Alaskan Education Sheldon Jackson's 14th annual report on Alaskan education. Jackson includes reports from the 20 government schools, reports from mission schools, Alaska public school statistics for 1892-1899, information on Sitka Industrial School graduates. Chapter 32 is Jackson's ninth annual report on introduction of domestic reindeer into Alaska [ED613532]. Consular reports in Chapter 33 address issues in Belgium, France, Austria, Great Britain, Russia, Germany, Switzerland, French children's mutual-aid societies, high-art reproductions for the U.S., French workingmen's aid societies, and schools of firearms and cabinetmaking. Chapter 34 lists foreign higher-education institutions. Chapter 35 discusses city teachers' salaries, teacher pensions and annuities, the English and Welsh teaching force, German university foreign students, Prussian university women students, teacher mortality, and a new history of education. Chapter 36 presents statistics on city school systems, including recent laws, enrollment, attendance, expenditures, receipts, and data on officers, teachers, and property. Chapter 37, on higher education institutions, lists study-course changes and new buildings. The introduction of the associate degree, with its advantages, is discussed. Various universities requirements for the Ph.D. degree are given. Data is provided on public and private institutional enrollment, enrollment in colleges for men and for both sexes, nonsectarian and religious control, professors and instructors, degrees conferred on men and on women, finances, women's colleges, and technology schools. Chapters 38 through 40 present statistics and discussion on professional schools, agricultural and mechanical schools including sections on dairying education and domestic or household economy and art instruction, and normal schools. Subsequent chapters offer statistics on secondary schools; manual and industrial training schools; commercial and business schools; education of the colored race; reform schools; schools for the defective classes, including those for the blind, deaf, and feeble-minded; and public kindergartens. Chapter 47 reviews normal-school history in 33 states and Arizona Territory, and of normal schools for colored teachers, city normal and training schools, and private normal schools. Subsequent chapters present an education necrology for 1898, portable school building discussion, and foreign education statistics. [For Volume 1, see ED622102.]