The Public School System of the United States

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 19, 1915

The Public School System of the United States

THE following item of information we clip from the Christian Observer of July 28. It reveals the large army which is training for life's responsibilities. What will be their future?

A mighty army of 22,000,000 persons was enrolled in educational institutions in the United States in 1914, according to the annual report of the Commissioner of Education of the United States, just issued. This is more than one fifth of the entire population. Of these students over 19,000,000 were in elementary schools, 1,374,000 in secondary schools, both public and private, and 216,000 in colleges and universities. Close to another 100,000 were in normal schools preparing to be teachers, 67,000 were in professional schools, and the remainder were scattered through other types of institutions. The teachers for this educational army numbered 700,000, of whom 566,000 were in public schools. In point of rapid growth the public high school still presents the most impressive figures; the enrollment for 1914 is greater by over 84,000 than for the year before. The cost of education for the year, as estimated by the bureau, was $750,000,000.