NOTE.-With the exceptions indicated, the documents named below will be sent free of charge upon application to the Commissioner of Education, Washington, D. C. Those marked with an asterisk (*) are no longer available for free distribution, but may be had of the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., upon payment of the price stated. Remittances should be made in coin, currency, or money order. Stamps are not accepted. 1916. *No. 1. Education exhibits at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. W. Carson Ryan, jr. 25 cts. No. 2. Agricultural and rural education at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. H. W. Foght. *No. 3. Placement of children in the elementary grades. K. J. Hoke. 10 ets. *No. 4. Monthly record of current educational publications, January, 1916. 5 cts. No. 5. Kindergarten training schools. No. 6. Statistics of State universities and State colleges, 1915. *No. 7. Monthly record of current educational publications, February, 1916. 5 cts. *No. 8. Reorganization of the public-school system. F. F. Bunker. 20 cts. *No. 9. Monthly record of current educational publications, March, 1916. 5 cts. No. 10. Needed changes in secondary education. Charles W. Eliot and Ernesto Nelson. No. 11. Monthly record of current educational publications, April, 1918. No. 12. Problems involved in standardizing State normal schools. C. H. Judd and S. C. Parker. *No. 13. Monthly record of current educational publications, May, 1916. 5 cts. *No. 14. State pension systems for public-school teachers. W. Carson Ryan, jr., and Roberta King. 10 cts. *No. 15. Monthly record of current educational publications -Index, February, 1916, to January, 1916. 5 cts. *No. 18. Reorganizing a county system of rural schools. J. Harold Williams. 10 cts. No. 17. The Wisconsin county training schools for teachers in rural schools. Larson. *No. 18. Public facilities for educating the alien. F. E. Farrington. 10 cts. No. 20. Accredited secondary schools in the United States. Samuel P. Capen. W. E. *No. 22. Monthly record of current educational publications, September, 1918. 5 cts. No. 23. Open-air schools. S. P. Kingsley and F. H. Dresslar. No. 24. Monthly record of current educational publications, October, 1916. No. 25. Commercial education. Glen Levin Swiggett. No. 26. A survey of the educational institutions of the State of Washington. No. 27. State higher educational institutions of North Dakota. *No. 28. The social studies in secondary education. Arthur W. Dunn. 10 cts. No. 29. Educational survey of Wyoming. A. C. Monahan and Katherine M. Cook. No. 30. University training for public service. No. 31. Monthly record of current educational publications, November, 1915. No. 33. Registration and student records for smaller colleges. B. F. Andrews. *No. 35. Monthly record of current educational publications, December, 1915. 5 cts, No. 37. Cooperative system of education. C. W. Park. No. 38. Negro education. Volume 1. Thomas Jesse Jones. No. 39, Negro education. Volume 2. Thomas Jesse Jones. No. 40. Gardening in elementary city schools. C. D. Jarvis. No. 41. Agricultural and rural extension schools in Ireland. A. C. Monahan. No. 42. Minimum school term regulations. J. C. Muerman. No. 43. Educational directory, 1916-17. *No. 44. The district agricultural schools of Georgia. C. H. Lane and D. J. Crosby. 5 cts. No. 45. Kindergarten legislation. Louise Schofield. No. 46. Recent movements in college and university administration. S. P. Capen. No. 47. Report on the work of the Bureau of Education for the natives of Alaska, 1914-15. No. 48. Rural school supervision. Katherine M. Cook and A. C. Monahan. No. 49. Medical inspection in Great Britain. E. L. Roberts. No. 50. Statistics of State universities and State colleges, 1916. ADDITIONAL COPIES OF THIS PUBLICATION MAY BE PROCURED FROM 5 CENTS PER COPY This bulletin contains the first data upon after-class activities in American public schools gathered under the new school-extension record system of the United States Bureau of Education. The questionnaire form upon which the information was collected is presented in the Appendix. The tabulations presented in the following pages are based upon the returns made to the Bureau of Education on its school extension blanks for the scholastic year ended June, 1916. These blanks were sent out to all municipalities of 5,000 population and over, and the number of cities that returned filled-in schedules was 554. Of these, 52 presented no school extension figures, and 27 gave data only upon night schools, while a few returns were so.incomplete or so manifestly inaccurate that it was not possible to use them in compiling the present report. All those which contained consistent answers to the main questions on the blank are included in Table 1. The 463 cities reported in this table obviously do not comprise all in the country which are doing important extension work. A considerable number of school systems which are active in this field have not yet adopted the uniform record blank recommended in Bulletin No. 41, and without that recording system it is difficult to assemble the information required by the bureau's school extension questionnaire. Among the cities which, according to reliable information, are to be credited with live extension undertakings, but which are not found in Table 1, are the following: |