Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Annual Report of the State Superintendent of Public Schools of New Jersey, for the Year 1853
Exclusive of a large amount (not embraced in the above re port) raised and expended in the repairing, enlarging and erection of school houses, and the providing therefor of the requisite apparatus and furniture.
The statistical returns hereunto annexed, carefully arranged in a convenient tabular form, show so far as the statistics col lected can Show, the actual and relative condition of the schools in the different townships of the state, and give direct and authentic information as to the number of children to be provided for - the number in attendance at school during specific periods of the year - the length of time the schools have been kept Open - the number of teachers, both male and female, employed - their compensation, and the amount of money raised and appropriated to the support of schools, which, in addition to the remarks of the town superintendents, to be found in the appendix to this report, show such an an alysis Ofthe public mind on the great subject of common school education, as will lead to important and useful practical te sults.
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