NATHANIEL H. R. DAWSON, L. H. D.,

August 6, 1886, to September 3, 1889.
WILLIAM T. HARRIS, PH. D., LL. D.,
September 12, 1889, to June 30, 1906.
ELMER ELLSWORTH BROWN, PH. D., LL. D.,
July 1, 1906, to June 30, 1911.

PHILANDER PRIESTLEY CLAXTON, LITT. D., LL. D.,
July 8, 1911, to date.

Commissioner's introduction..

I. Education and the war:

Mobilizing the intellectual resources of the Nation...

School children and crop production..

The schools and food conservation..

School attendance.....

Reaching public understanding through the schools..

II. Educational surveys:

Educational survey work as a function of the Bureau of Education..

Duplication among higher institutions; "Major and service lines"..

Fundamental assumptions in survey work.

Wyoming.

Colorado..

University of Nevada.

San Francisco...

Arizona..

III. General activities of the bureau:

Organization of the bureau's work..

Appropriations....

Statistics.....

Correspondence...

Publications.

Higher education....

Vocational education and home economics.

Secondary education....

City-school administration

Rural education......

Commercial education.

Kindergarten education..

Home education.....

Community organization..

Civic education...

Americanization..

Home and school gardening..

Negro education......

School hygiene...

Education in foreign countries..

Education for natives in Alaska.

IV. Educational conditions in the other warring countries..

Great Britain.......

England and Wales..

The education bill...

Statistical summaries.

France......

Continuation-school bill.....

The Grenoble plan of vocational education..

Universities....

Germany..

Belgium...

V. Recommendations...

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