Synopses & Reviews
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER HI ORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION The individual state is the source of power in the organization and administration of public education. The influence of the United States upon education has been effected largely through grants of land made to individual commonwealths, and through the Bureau of Education. These grants have been made both for the benefit of the common schools and also for higher education. By the act of July 2, 1862, about thirteen millions of acres were granted by the Federal government to the several states for the establishment or promotion of higher education and especially of mechanical or agricultural education. The amount of land given for the support of the public schools and common schools is far greater than that given for the support of the higher education. For the universities and agricultural and mechanical colleges about ten million acres have been given, but for the common schools more than seventy million. Among the states the common schools of which have been more richly endowed, are Utah, with about six million acres, Montana and California with five million acres each, Idaho and Colorado three million acres each, North and South Dakota have each received more than two million acres, Oregon and Nevada each more than three million acres, Minnesota and Kansas each more than two million acres. Although the general government has committed the interests of the education of the pupil to each individual state, it has aided each individual state in doing its educational work through these large grants. It has sought to apply a proper doctrine of state rights, and it has also endeavored to increase and to make more efficient the rights which each state exercises. The influence of the general government is also exercised through the ...
Synopsis
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.