Excerpt from Second Annual Report of the Board of Education: Together With the Second Annual Report of the Secretary of the BoardIn their first Annual Report, it was stated, that, in the absence of specific powers to undertake measures for the improvement of the schools of the Commonwealth, the Board had been led to seek the voluntary co-opera tion of the friends of education, and, as the best mode of obtaining this co-operation, had invited them to meet the Secretary of the Board, in convention in the several counties of the Commonwealth.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.