Show EDUCATION IN 1916 there were persons attending tt ending schools of some kind in the united states in 1916 ac cording to estimates of the unit cd states bureau of education this means declares the annual report of the commissioner of education that approximate ly 24 per cent of the inhabitants of the united states are attend ing school as compared with 19 pw per cent in great britain 17 per pe r cent in r france francc 20 per cent in germany and a little over 4 per cent in russa the dureau bureau points out cut however that the ie result is much less faaoi favorable able to the united states if daily attendance rather than enrollment is taken as the basis for combar comparison i since some of the otharn other na eions have better attend attendance ance and a longer school term than the ahr united states the number of pupils in public kindergarten and elemena elementary ry schools rose from in 1910 to in 1914 arn an iacre increase so of more than a million in four years in the same period the number of public high school students indrea zed from end and for 1915 the corresponding figure was As the result of this increase of in public high school students the total number of students in the high schools of all kinds increased to a nillion million and a half of the public high schools reported had full four year courses approximately 93 per cent of all 11 dubaic high school students are in four year high schools the report analyzes the number of teachers in the united states showing that of the teachers tea cheis were men and women the number of men teachers has increased very since 1800 1900 the number of women tea teachers chirs has almost doubled in public elementary schools the iber of meri teachers has decreased 20 percent since 1900 while the number of women teachers has increased 8 per cent I 1 in n 1900 1906 teaching positions in public high schools were evenly divided 0 between men and women at il the ic present time women 0 outnumber ut rumber the men by the avera average a annual salary of all teachers is 13 the figure is hig hestin the east and north atlantic states with and respectively and lowest lowes t in the south atlantic states it var from in ludw to a in california and id in in new low york |