THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF CHICAGO A SOCIOLOGICAL STUDY PRESENTED TO THE FACULTY OF ARTS, LITERATURE, AND SCIENCE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO IN CANDIDACY FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY BY HANNAH B. CLARK CHICAGO The University of Chicago Press PREFACE. The data for this study of the Chicago public schools have been chiefly derived from the "Proceedings of the Board" and the annual reports of the school inspectors and Board of Education. The latter form an unbroken series from 1854 to 1895–6 Information concerning the earlier period is found in a few scattered reports by inspectors, in a history of the schools published in 1857 and afterwards continued and enlarged by the clerk of the board, Shepherd Johnson, and in a "Report on Common Schools" presented to the council in 1838. The state constitutions and statutes and the city charters and ordinances of different dates contain the school laws. Other material has been taken from the following sources: "A Brief History of Education in Illinois," by Samuel Willard published in the Illinois School Reports for 1883-4; "Early Education in Illinois," by W. L. Pillsbury; "City School Systems of the United States," by John S. Philbrick, published by the Bureau of Education as a Circular of Information; "Education in the United States," by Boone; the Eighth Annual Report of the Illinois Bureau of Labor Statistics for 1894. To these have been added interviews and correspondence with the superintendent of schools, former members of the board, teachers and business men, and personal observation and investigation. |