Excerpt from An Index Number for State School SystemsDuring the past fifty years the United States Bureau of Education has published annual reports setting forth conditions in the public schools of each state in the Union. Each year it has gathered and made public the figures which measure certain of the larger and more important phases of the educational effort and attainment of the states. Included in these records are the figures which Show how many of the children are attending the public schools and for how many days during the year, what numbers of the children are in the higher schools, and what price in dollars the state is paying to purchase this education for them. These figures re¿ect the diffusion, the amount, and the quality of the education that the children are receiving.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.