TABLE, in which all the Counties are numerically arranged, according to the AVERAGE ATTENDANCE of their children upon the Public Schools, for the year 1865-6. Number of children between 5 and 15 years of age in the State, Ratio of attendance to the whole number of children between 5 and 15, expressed in decimals, .72-51 INDEX. REPORT OF BOARD OF EDUCATION AND OF ITS SECRETARY. (For Index of Town School Reports, see the following pages.) Abstract of School Reports, value of, 627 Agent of Board, resignation of, 5, 73. services of, 5, 72. statement of, concerning Normal Schools, 101. Appropriations, increase of, 61. Bigelow, George N., resignation of as Principal of Framingham Normal School, 20. Board of Education, Report of, 5. Boyden, A. G., statement of, respecting Bridgewater Normal School, 93. Bridgewater Normal School, Report of Visitors of, 29. statistics of, 29, 95. teachers of, 30. donations to library of, &c., 31. statement concerning, 93. Bullock, Alexander H., Governor, Remarks of, at Framingham Normal School, 37. Bureau of Education, National, 14. Children, Act in relation to employment of, in Manufacturing Establishments, 67. Collegiate Education should be free, 13. Common School System, success of, 5, 9, 11, 17, 24. Common Schools, support of, since the war ended, 62, 59. Dickinson, J. W., statements of, respecting the Westfield Normal School, 99. Emerson, George B., Report of, as Treasurer of the Board, 52. Female teachers, 11, 12, 39. Framingham Normal School, Report of Visitors of, 19. statistics of, 19, 92. teachers of, 20. Miss Annie E. Johnson appointed Principal of, 21, 37, 83. lectures, &c., 23. exercises upon induction into office of Miss Johnson as Principal of, 83. Free Colleges, 13. Government, 16. Hagar, D. B., statements of, respecting Salem Normal School, 96. High Schools, required length of, reduced, 64. establishment of, 78. table of towns maintaining them, 79. M* Institutes for Teachers. (See Teachers' Institutes.) Johnson, Annie E., Miss, appointed Principal of Framingham Normal School, 21, 37, 41, 83. Remarks of His Excellency Governor Bullock at induction of, to office, 37, 83. statement of, respecting Framingham Normal School, 92. Legislation for Public Schools, 63. Social, 106. Manufacturing Establishments, Act in relation to employment of children in, 67. Normal Schools, prosperity of, 8, 24, 83, 91, et seq. names of teachers of, continued from 1860, 6. expense to the State of pupils in, 8. support of, 10. compensation of teachers of, insufficient, 22, 31, 35. statistics of, 11, 19, 92, et seq. object of, 23, 31, 41, 84. position they hold in our system of popular education, 41, et seq., demand for graduates of, 85. reply to strictures upon, 85, 88, et seq. statement of the Agent of the Board, concerning, 101. statement of Principals, concerning, 92, et seq. 84. Northrop, B. G., Agent of the Board, elected to office of Secretary of Board of Education in Connecticut, 5, 73. ability and services of, 5, 72. statement of, respecting Normal Schools, 101. views of, concerning duties and importance of a superintendent, 111. Public Schools, advance of, 5, 9, 11, 58, 61, 62. deficiencies and errors of, 14, 15, 17. self-reporting system in, 14. government of, 16. evil of too many pupils and of costly buildings, 16. effect of the war upon the support of, 61. amounts raised by tax annually for support of, for ten years, 61. legislation for, 63. notice of strictures upon, in a treatise entitled "The Daily Public Schools," 85. Report of Board of Education, 5. Report of Visitors of Normal Schools, at Framingham, 19. Westfield, 25. Bridgewater, 29. Salem, 32. Report of Treasurer of the Board, 52. Report of Secretary of the Board, 58. Reports of School Committees. (See Abstracts.) Salem Normal School, Report of Visitors of, 32. statistics of, 32, 99. lectures, donations to library of, &c., 33. additional facilities needed, 34. statement of Principal, concerning, 96. School Committees Reports, Abstracts of. (See Abstracts.) |