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or only one grade of the preparatory division in a year. Teachers have entire freedom in classifying their pupils according to progress and ability, and promotion, particularly in the lower grades, is often more rapid.

At the same time the majority of pupils in the standard classes pass through only one grade in a year, and successive drafts of pupils have the same teacher in that grade. Recognizing the disadvantages of this form of organization, head masters not infrequently, however, assign to members of the staff the charge of the same pupils for two or more years in succession, and the observed results have generally been highly beneficial in the case of both the teacher and the pupil. How far the practice may extend depends largely on personal considerations, and it is felt that the matter is best left in the hands of the head master, who, with a full knowledge of the capabilities of his staff, must decide what organization is best in the interest of his pupils.

TOKYO, JAPAN.

The length of school courses are: Primary schools, six years; grammar schools, two years (which may be extended to three). The six years of the primary school are compulsory. Every pupil who completes the requirement of a school year is promoted into the next grade. A grade may be divided into classes according to the number of pupils.

Each grade is in charge of a licensed teacher. Whether the teacher remains in one grade from year to year or is promoted with the children is not determined by law, but it is customary for the principal of the school to determine this according to the school curriculum and other considerations.

From the experiences of the primary schools in general it is asserted that in case a good teacher is in charge of a class he should accompany the children as they advance. Of this there are many instances.

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BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF EDUCATION.

[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. Numbers omitted are out of print.]

1906.

*No. 3. State school systems: Legislation and judicial decisions relating to public education, Oct. 1, 1904, to Oct. 1, 1906. Edward C. Elliott. 15 cts.

1908.

No. 6. The apprenticeship system in its relation to industrial education. Carroll D. Wright. 15 cts. No. 8. Statistics of State universities and other institutions of higher education partially supported by the State, 1907-8.

1909.

No. 2. Admission of Chinese students to American colleges. John Fryer. *No. 3. Daily meals of school children. Caroline L. Hunt. 10 cts.

No. 5. Statistics of public, society, and school libraries in 1908.

No. 7. Index to the Reports of the Commissioner of Education, 1867-1907.

*No. 8. A teacher's professional library. Classified list of 100 titles. 5 cts.

No. 9. Bibliography of education for 1908-9. 10 cts.

No. 10. Education for efficiency in railroad service. J. Shirley Eaton.

*No. 11. Statistics of State universities and other institutions of higher education partially supported by the State, 1908-9. 5 cts.

1910.

*No. 2. State school systems: III. Legislation and judicial decisions relating to public education, Oct. 1, 1908, to Oct. 1, 1909. Edward C. Elliott. 25 cts.

*No. 5. American schoolhouses. Fletcher B. Dresslar. 75 cts.

1911.

*No. 1. Bibliography of science teaching. 5 cts.

*No. 3. Agencies for the improvement of teachers in service. William C. Ruediger. 15 cts.

*No. 4. Report of the commission appointed to study the system of education in the public schools of Baltimore. 10 cts.

*No. 5. Age and grade census of schools and colleges. George D. Strayer. 10 cts.

*No. 6. Graduate work in mathematics in universities and in other institutions of like grade in the United States. 5 cts.

No. 7. Undergraduate work in mathematics in colleges and universities.

*No. 9. Mathematics in the technological schools of collegiate grade in the United States. 5 cts.

*No. 13. Mathematics in the elementary schools of the United States. 15 cts.

*No. 14. Provision for exceptional children in the public schools. J. H. Van Sickle, Lightner Witmer, and Leonard P. Ayres. 10 cts.

*No. 15. Educational system of China as recently reconstructed. Harry E. King. 10 cts.

*No. 19. Statistics of State universities and other institutions of higher education partially supported by the State, 1910-11. 5 cts.

1912.

*No. 1. A course of study for the preparation of rural-school teachers. F. Mutchler and W. J. Craig. 5 cts. No. 2. Mathematics at West Point and Annapolis.

*No. 3. Report of committee on uniform records and reports. 5 cts.

*No. 4. Mathematics in technical secondary schools in the United States. 5 cts.

*No. 5. A study of expenses of city school systems. Harlan Updegraff. 10 cts.

*No. 7. Educational status of nursing. M. Adelaide Nutting. 10 cts.

*No. 9. Country schools for city boys. William S. Myers. 10 cts.

No. 11. Current educational topics, No. I.

*No. 13. Influences tending to improve the work of the teacher of mathematics. 5 cts.

*No. 14. Report of the American commissioners of the international commission on the teaching of mathematics. 10 cts.

*No. 17. The Montessori system of education. Anna T. Smith. 5 cts. *No. 18. Teaching language through agriculture and domestic science. *No. 19. Professional distribution of college and university graduates. *No. 22. Public and private high schools. 25 cts.

M. A. Leiper. 5 cts.
Bailey B. Burritt. 10 cts.

*No. 23. Special collections in libraries in the United States. W. D. Johnston and I. G. Mudge. 10 cts. No. 26. Bibliography of child study for the years 1910-11.

No. 27. History of public-school education in Arkansas. Stephen B. Weeks.

*No. 28. Cultivating school grounds in Wake County, N. C. Zebulon Judd. 5 cts.

No. 29. Bibliography of the teaching of mathematics, 1900-1912. D. E. Smith and Chas. Goldziher. *No. 30. Latin-American universities and special schools. Edgar E. Brandon. 30 cts.

1913.

*No. 1. Monthly record of current educational publications, January, 1913. 5 cts.
*No. 2. Training courses for rural teachers. A. C. Monahan and R. H. Wright. 5 cts.
*No. 3. The teaching of modern languages in the United States. Charles H. Handschin.
*No. 4. Present standards of higher education in the United States. George E. MacLean. 20 cts.
*No. 5. Monthly record of current educational publications, February, 1913. 5 cts.

15 cts.

*No. 6. Agricultural instruction in high schools. C. H. Robison and F. B. Jenks. 10 cts.

*No. 7. College entrance requirements. Clarence D. Kingsley. 15 cts.

*No. 8. The status of rural education in the United States. A. C. Monahan. 15 cts.

*No. 11. Monthly record of current educational publications, April, 1913. 5 cts.

*No. 12. The promotion of peace. Fannie Fern Andrews. 10 cts.

*No. 13. Standards and tests for measuring the efficiency of schools or systems of schools. 5 cts.

No. 15. Monthly record of current educational publications, May, 1913.

*No. 16. Bibliography of medical inspection and health supervision. 15 cts.

*No. 18. The fifteenth international congress on hygiene and demography. Fletcher B. Dresslar. 10 cts. No. 19. German industrial education and its lessons for the United States. Holmes Beckwith. *No. 20. Illiteracy in the United States. 10 cts.

*No. 21. Monthly record of current educational publications, June, 1913. 5 cts.

*No. 22. Bibliography of industrial, vocational, and trade education. 10 cts.

*No. 23. The Georgia club at the State Normal School, Athens, Ga., for the study of rural sociology. E. C. Branson. 10 cts.

*No. 24. A comparison of public education in Germany and in the United States. Georg Kerschensteiner.

5 cts.

*No. 25. Industrial education in Columbus, Ga. Roland B. Daniel. 5 cts.

*No. 26. Good roads arbor day. Susan B. Sipe. 10 cts.

*No. 28. Expressions on education by American statesmen and publicists. 5 cts.

*No. 29. Accredited secondary schools in the United States. Kendric C. Babcock. 10 cts.

*No. 31. Special features in city school systems. 10 cts.

*No. 34. Pension systems in Great Britain. Raymond W. Sies. 10 cts.

*No. 35. A list of books suited to a high-school library. 15 cts.

*No. 36. Report on the work of the Bureau of Education for the natives of Alaska, 1911-12. 10 cts.

No. 37. Monthly record of current educational publications, October, 1913.

*No. 38. Economy of time in education. 10 cts.

*No. 39. Elementary industrial school of Cleveland, Ohio. W. N. Hailmann. 5 cts.

*No. 40. The reorganized school playground. Henry S. Curtis. 10 cts.

*No. 41. The reorganization of secondary education. 10 cts.

*No. 42. An experimental rural school at Winthrop College. H. S. Browne. 10 cts.

*No. 43. Agriculture and rural-life day; material for its observance. Eugene C. Brooks. 10 cts.

*No. 44. Organized health work in schools. E. B. Hoag. 10 cts.

*No. 45. Monthly record of current educational publications, November, 1913. 5 cts.

*No. 46. Educational directory, 1913. 15 cts.

*No. 47. Teaching material in Government publications. F. K. Noyes. 10 cts.

*No. 48. School hygiene. W. Carson Ryan, jr. 15 cts.

*No. 49. The Farragut School, a Tennessee country-life high school. A. C. Monahan and Adams Phillips. 10 cts.

*No. 50. The Fitchburg plan of cooperative industrial education. M. R. McCann. 10 cts.

*No. 51. Education of the immigrant. 10 cts.

*No. 52. Sanitary schoolhouses. Legal requirements in Indiana and Ohio. 5 cts.

No. 53. Monthly record of current educational publications, December, 1913.

No. 54. Consular reports on industrial education in Germany.

No. 55. Legislation and judicial decisions relating to education, Oct. 1, 1909, to Oct. 1, 1912. James C. Boykin and William R. Hood.

*No. 58. Educational system of rural Denmark. Harold W. Foght. 15 cts.

No. 59. Bibliography of education for 1910–11.

No. 60. Statistics of State universities and other institutions of higher education partially supported by the State, 1912-13.

1914.

*No. 1. Monthly record of current educational publications, January, 1914. 5 cts.

*No. 2. Compulsory school attendance. 15 cts.

*No. 3. Monthly record of current educational publications, February, 1914. 5 cts.

*No. 4. The school and the start in life. Meyer Bloomfield. 5 cts.

No. 5. The folk high schools of Denmark. L. L. Friend.

*No. 6. Kindergartens in the United States. 20 cts.

*No. 7. Monthly record of current educational publications, March, 1914. 5 cts.

*No. 8. The Massachusetts home-project plan of vocational agricultural education. R.W.Stimson. 15 cts.

No. 9. Monthly record of current educational publications, April, 1914.

No. 10. Physical growth and school progress. B. T. Baldwin.

*No. 11. Monthly record of current educational publications, May, 1914. 5 cts.

No. 12. Rural schoolhouses and grounds. F. B. Dresslar.

No. 13. Present status of drawing and art in the elementary and secondary schools of the United States. Royal B. Farnum.

*No. 14. Vocational guidance. 10 cts.

*No. 15. Monthly record of current educational publications. Index. 5 cts.

No. 16. The tangible rewards of teaching. James C. Boykin and Roberta King.

No. 17. Sanitary survey of the schools of Orange County, Va. Roy K. Flannagan.

No. 18. The public school system of Gary, Ind. William P. Burris.

No. 19. University extension in the United States. Louis E. Reber.

No. 20. The rural school and hookworm disease. J. A. Ferrell.

No. 21. Monthly record of current educational publications, September, 1914. 10 cts.
No. 22. The Danish folk high schools. H. W. Foght.

No. 23. Some trade schools in Europe. Frank L. Glynn.

*No. 24. Danish elementary rural schools. H. W. Foght. 10 cts.

No. 25. Important features in rural school improvement. W. T. Hodges.

No. 26. Monthly record of current educational publications, October, 1914.

No. 27. Agricultural teaching. 15 cts.

No. 28. The Montessori method and the kindergarten. Elizabeth Harrison.
No. 29. The kindergarten in benevolent institutions.

A. C. Monahan.

No. 30. Consolidation of rural schools and transportation of pupils at public expense.
*No. 31. Report on the work of the Bureau of Education for the natives of Alaska. 25 cts.
No. 32. Bibliography of the relation of secondary schools to higher education. R. I. Walkley.
*No. 33. Music in the public schools. Will Earhart. 10 cts.

No. 34. Library instruction in universities, colleges, and normal schools. Henry R. Evans.
*No. 35. The training of teachers in England, Scotland, and Germany. Charles H. Judd. 10 cts.
No. 36. Education for the home-Part I. General statement. B. R. Andrews.

No. 37. Education for the home-Part II. State legislation, schools, agencies. B. R. Andrews.
No. 38. Education for the home-Part III. Colleges and universities. Benjamin R. Andrews.
No. 39. Education for the home-Part IV. Bibliography, list of schools. Benjamin R. Andrews.
No. 40. Care of the health of boys in Girard College, Philadelphia, Pa.

*No. 41. Monthly record of current educational publications, November, 1914. 5 cts.
*No. 42. Monthly record of current educational publications, December, 1914. 5 cts.
*No. 43. Educational directory, 1914-15. 20 cts.

No. 44. County-unit organization for the administration of rural schools. A. C. Monahan.
No. 45. Curricula in mathematics. J. C. Brown. 10 cts.

*No. 46. School savings banks. Mrs. Sara L. Oberholtzer. 5 cts.

No. 47. City training schools for teachers. Frank A. Manny.

No. 48. The educational museum of the St. Louis public schools. C. G. Rathman.
No. 49. Efficiency and preparation of rural-school teachers. H. W. Foght.
No. 50. Statistics of State universities and State colleges.

1915.

*No. 1. Cooking in the vocational school. Iris P. O'Leary. 5 cts.

No. 2. Monthly record of current educational publications, January, 1915.

*No. 3. Monthly record of current educational publications, February, 1915. 5 cts. No. 4. The health of school children. W. H. Heck.

No. 5. Organization of State departments of education. A. C. Monahan.

*No. 6. A study of colleges and high schools in the North Central Association. 15 cts.

No. 7. Accredited secondary schools in the United States. Samuel P. Capen.

No. 8. Present status of the honor system in colleges and universities. Bird T. Baldwin.

No. 9. Monthly record of current educational publications, March, 1915.

*No. 10. Monthly record of current educational publications, April, 1915. 15 cts.

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