HAROLD L. ICKES: SECRETARY U.S. OFFICE OF EDUCATION: J. W. STUDEBAKER COMMISSIONER STATISTICAL BEING CHAPTER I OF THE BIENNIAL SURVEY OF EDUCATION IN THE PREPARED BY EMERY M. FOSTER, CHIEF DIVISION OF STATISTICS UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1937 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, Washington, D. C. Price 5 cents THE MAR 19 1937 CHAPTER I STATISTICAL SUMMARY OF EDUCATION, 1933-34 T INTRODUCTION HIS SUMMARY brings together data from the various statistical chapters of the Biennial Survey of Education, 1932-34.1 Each of these chapters deals with one field of education and has been published separately as part of Bulletin, 1935, No. 2, as follows: Chapter II. Statistics of State School Systems, 1933-34. Chapter VII. Statistics of Private Commercial, and Business Chapter VIII. A Review of Educational Legislation, 1933 and 1934. NUMBER OF SCHOOLS A school of elementary or secondary grade, as defined by the Office of Education, is an organized unit under the administration of a principal or teaching-principal, such as an elementary school, high school, or junior college. There may be two or more schools in one building. More than 279,500 schools of various types are covered in the requests sent out by the Office of Education for information for the Biennial Survey of Education (table 1). For the 1932-34 biennium, reports were received from 35,920 individual schools or school systems and the State departments of education.2 1 The Statistics of City School Systems, which are tabulated in full every other biennium and in an abridged form every other biennium, are in full for 1933-34 as given last in 1929-30. The Biennial Survey of Education, 1934-36, will have a chapter on Statistics of Public-School Libraries, the first study of its kind since 1929. The chapter on Education of Exceptional Children, which combines data for State and private residential schools for exceptional children with the schools and classes in the public-school system for these children, included for 1931-32 will appear again for 1935-36. Statistics of Nurse-Training Schools which appeared last as a separate chapter for 1930-31 will be included as a part of the Statistics of Higher Education for 1935-36. 1 See Educational Directory, part IV, for educational associations of art, music, and correspondence schools not included in Biennial Survey figures. 103800-37 1 |