REPORTS AND DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE COMMON SCHOOL SYSTEM OF CONNECTICUT. Hartford: Case, Tiffany & Co. This Volume is made up of different numbers of the Connecticut Common School Journal, which contain separate documents of permanent value. It makes a large quarto volume of 400 pages, in double columns, and small type. Price $1.00. I.-DOCUMENTS CONNECTED WITH THE COMMON SCHOOLS OF CONNECTICUT, REPORTS of the Board of Commissioners of Common Schools, for 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842 64 44 46 Address of the Board of Commissioners of C. S. to the People, 1838. First Annual Report to the Board of C. C. S., 1839; Second do. for 1840; Third do. for 1841; Fourth do. for 1842. Report on Education in other States and Countries, 1840. Public Schools in Boston, Providence, Lowell, Worcester, &c., 1841. Report on Public Schools of Hartford, 1841. Remarks on the History and Condition of the School Laws of Connecticut, 1841. Report on the Legal Provision respecting the Education and Employment of Children in Letter to a Committee of the Legislature on the Expenses of the Board of Commissioners, Reports of School Visitors in most of the Towns in Connecticut, for 1840 to 1842. Act to provide for the better Supervision of Common Schools, passed 1838. Act giving additional powers to School Districts and School Societies, 1839. Report and Act for repealing the Board of Commissioners, 1842. II.-DOCUMENTS OR ARTICLES RESPECTING THE SCHOOL SYSTEM OF OTHER STATES AND COUNTRIES. Condition of Public Education in Scotland, Ireland, England, and Wales, from various sources. REPORT ON THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF RHODE ISLAND, for 1845, by Henry Barnard, Commissioner of Public Schools. Providence: C. Burnett, Jr. ACT for ascertaining the condition of the Public Schools, and the better management and improvement of the same. Circular of Governor Fenner. REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS. I. Mode of ascertaining the condition of Public Schools, and other means of popular education. 1. By personal inspection and inquiry. 2. By circulars addressed to teachers and school committees. 3. By official returus and reports of school committees. 4. By statements in public meeting, 5-7. II. Measures adopted to improve the public schools under their present organization, and prepare the way for a more complete and efficient system of public instruction. 1. By public lectures. 2. By conversation and letters. 3. By circulating tracts, periodicals, and documents relating to schools, school systems, &c. 4. By establishing a Library of Education in each town. 5. By associations for school improvement. 6. By assisting in the selection of good teachers. 7. By a more extensive employment of female teachers. 8. By a gradation of schools. 9. By teachers' associations, or institutes. 10. By an itinerating normal school agency. 11. By preparing the way for one normal school. 12. By making known plans of school-houses. 13. By school apparatus and library. 14. By lyceums, lectures, and library associations. 15. By preparing the draft of school act, 7-16. III. Defects in the former organization and administration of the system, with the outline of the existing organization. 1. Summary of defects. 2. Outline of the system as reorganized IV. Condition of the public schools, with remedies for existing defects, and suggestions for their increasing usefulness. 1. Organization. 2. School-houses. 3. School attendance. 4. Classification of schools. 5. Agricultural districts. 6. Manufacturing districts. 7. City districts. APPENDIX.-DOCUMENTS REFERRED TO IN THE REPORT. I. Circular to Teachers, and to School Committees, II. Topics of Lectures on Education, III. Associations for the Improvement of Public Schools, do. do. Teachers' Institute, Rhode Island Institute of Instruction, IV. Educational Tracts, V. Books and Pamphlets, relative to education, circulated in the State, VI. Catalogue of Books in Library of Education, Educational Periodicals, VII. History and condition of the legislation of Rhode Island respecting public schools, 81 85 86 86 149 158 - 165 227 - 229 241 - 243 253 X. Statistical Tables, relating to population, valuation, expenditures of the State and of the several towns, XI. Apportionment of the State appropriation for public schools, for 1846, XII. School-house Architecture, XIII. Names of different kinds of text-books used in the State, XIV. Public Schools in cities and large villages, XV. Rules and Regulations of School Committees, do. do. Index to Report, Providence, JOURNAL OF THE RHODE ISLAND INSTITUTE OF INSTRUCTION: commenced in 1845, and discontinued in 1849. Edited by Henry Barnard, Commissioner of Public Schools. volumes. Price $3.50 per set. CONTENTS.-VOLUME I. The set consists of three Report on the Public Schools of Rhode Island for 1845, and the following articles in Extra in Ohio, Smithsonian Bequest, Organization of School Districts, Progress of education in Connecticut, History of the English Language, by E. R. Porter, Adaptation of the Universe to the cultivation of the mind, by R. G. Hazard, Address on Education, by R. G. Hazard, Individual and Associated effort, A Father's Prayer for his Son, Index to Extra Journal, VOLUME II., FOR 1847. Prospectus, Discourse before the Rhode Island Historical Society, by Hon. Job Durfee, Origin and Repeal of the School Act of 1830, by John Howland, Debate on the School Act of 1828, Memorial from East Greenwich, Remarks of J. L. Tillinghast, J. J. Waterman, 64 - Dixon, 64 E. R. Porter, 46 R. T. Cranston, Condition of Public Schools of Rhode Island in 1832, Report by Oliver Angell, Annual Abstract of School Returns for 1839, 66 64 for 1844, Debate on the School Act of 1845, Remarks of Wilkins Updike, Report of School Committee of North Providence, Smithfield, Plan of Grounds for Village School, Plans for Schools of different grades, Plan of Public School in City of New York, 44 Primary School, Report on seats without backs, Boston Primary School Chair, Brimmer Grammar School, Boston, Plans of Normal Schools in Massachusetts, Hints respecting Blackboards, 91 - 93 96 99 100 - 101 107 Boston Plan of Warming and Ventilation, - 109 Condition of School-houses in Massachusetts, 112 - 137 Second Annual Meeting of the Rhode Island Institute of Instruction, Mr. Perry's Report, Libraries-value of books, Origin of District School Libraries, New York, Vermont, Maine, &c. 139 - 153 153 163 167 167 171 173 Specimen of Constitution for Library Association, Catalogue of Books for Village Libraries, Rules and Regulations for the use of the books of a Library, 175 176 177 205 Report of Commissioner of Public Schools for 1848, Third Annual Report of Executive Committee of Rhode Island Institute of Instruction, Proceedings of Third Annual Meeting, - 346 347 - 348 350 - 353 354 - 361 369 - 369 380 382 388 - 390 393 - 394 395 - 398 398 399 13 Remarks of Mr. Barnard, Evening Schools, Documents relating to the History and Condition of Public Schools in Rhode Island, Providence, 26 33 33 44 46 55 57 58 62 64 64 65 67 73 74 75 75 76 80 81 84 - 97 103 - 108 122 - 126 128 - 138 141 - 142 A list of Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, and similar works, for reference by the teacher, and consultation in the school-room or library, is given on page 45. 3-4. CATALOGUE OF BOOKS FOR JUVENILE AND ADULT READING. Committees will be aided in selecting books for District, Town, and Circulating Libraries, by consulting the Catalogue of the Pawcatuck Library, on page 429-548. Although the author of this treatise is responsible generally for this selection, which was made for a village library, and for all classes of readers, yet there are several volumes in the catalogue which were the donations of individuals, and others which were purchased because bound up with sets, the mass of which were unexceptionable. For a School Library, many of these volumes would be deemed unsuitable. |