Report of the Commissioner of Education (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ACTIVITIES OF THE BUREAU OF EDUCATION. THE CAMPAIGN FOR SCHOOL ATTENDANCE. The whole strength of the Bureau of Education has been directed without cessation during the past year to the effort to maintain the schools of the country at full efficiency during the war. There was need of the effort. The declaration of war came in the midst of the second semester of the school year, 1916-17. The attendant excitement threatened to demoralize the entire work of in- strootipn even: before) the real effects of war measures began to be felt''During rVrt? Slimmer vacation of 1917 large numbers of students /and. jof: '