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Show yj GROWTH OF NATIONAL EDUCATIO. Great material progress was made by tho national public school system in the decade between 1900 and 1910 ho annual income of the public schools Increased from 5220.000,000 to .425.-000,000, .425.-000,000, and the number of pupils enrolled en-rolled Increased about SO per cenL rn tho high schools alone tho increase was from 520,000 to 900.000 pupils. As the total population of tho country increased in-creased 21 per cent in thq decade, public school education seems to have gone ahead with a bound. It is not so satisfactory, however, to learn that tho average annual attendance attend-ance of children enrolled was only 99 days in 1900 and 11-1 days in 1910. The latter flguro reprosents study for only a little more than a third of tho year with SundayB and holidays oxcluded. Those who havo advocated higher salaries for teachers should not that the average pay of roon has Increased in tbe decade from $46.50 to $65 a month and of women from $34 a month to $52. Chlcgao Record Herald. |