Show BUREAU OF EDUCATION in summarizing the work of the bureau of education for the year commissioner claxton after poin pointing ting out that the bureau lias has no rib administrative functions other than those connected with the expenditure of funds appropriated by the federal government for st state ate colleges of agriculture and mechanic a arts arts or for alaska declares that the bureau nevertheless performs higher and more important duties than could be performed by any administrative federal action office offic eV commissioner claxton thus defines the task of his bureau to serve as a clearing house for accurate and comprehend compre comprehensive hen sive information in respect to all educational cat ional agencies and all forms of education in the united states and foreign countries and to disseminate this information among school officers teachers students of education and all others directly interested in education to serve as a clearing house for or the best opinions on school organization and administration courses of study methods of teaching and any other matters connected with popular aduca tion to give advice on request to legislatures school officers teachers find and others engaged in promoting and directing education to promote on its own initiative and to assist education officers and the people of the several states and local communities in promoting what it believes to be necessary and desirable tendencies in education and in the organization of educational agencies to the end that there may be full and equal opportunity of education for all to determine standards of measurement in education and to conduct and direct experiments in education to the end that we ma may y finally have a larger body of definite scientific knowledge about education and educational processes ses and methods |