Show NATION 1 JL unprecedented progress in education U education was is anale progress in fit tile the in fit united states during 1021 1 there being more inore real achievement than anny year eur yet recorded corded ic lie c cording to it made lv by jolin john J commissioner of nf education of the deportment of the interior tho the statement follows in ili part curf durley the year there were eri enrolled in tile alie public and high schools pupils of whom about were ero in n tile lie high schools there were ero enrolled in the private and parochial schools about with in ili the secondary schools seli universities tind colleges col leKes enrolled over students student 8 the teachers colleges col lesea and normal schools enrolled pupils of about were eie students in tin tile secondary stage business collects colleg coll ests 14 and caal schools oni enrolled oiled students the average dully dally tit in public high and elementary seli was in tile lie vicinity of pupils these enroll enn can bo be best appreciated when lien compared roin pared with tile year car 1000 for example in the lie twenty four years ears since 1100 1900 atten attendance danco in the public elementary schools lins lias increased 14 44 per cent in tho public high schools 1571 at per rent tit in tile ho colleges and lini per cent and tit in the teu chers colleges unil and normal schools 71 7 1 per cent very verv naturally these enormous ln in reuses creases in ili attendance liue hae involved ln a increase in ili cost it Is that the lie educational bill 1111 in 1 l amounted to lat in of rural education where progress ritS lins has always been slowest thero lini has been it tendency to supplant untrained and niman officials wath etli those who nho havo have been filled liy by special training for or their task more than 25 per cent of tile the states raised their for til lentes during the lie year rural teachers salaries increased on nn tin nn ti of igloo aw the terin wits mia lengthened and there was vaa it corresponding increase in average itally dall attendance in alie neighborhood of 1000 school consolidations were 0 for transport U tion increased 3 lri and about one olio room schools were ero closed been cause use of the lie coming coining of moro more adf consolidated schools public education in tile the cities wits by tile the most moat extensive building program ever yet set attempted |