Educational Administration: Quantitative Studies

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Macmillan, 1922 - 391 pages
In this volume, Professors Strayer and Thorndike present materials of essential value that relate to educational administration from various articles and monographs, in such a compact form that every educational administrator can have a copy for his desk. It permits also an effective use of these materials for class discussion, since the book can be in the hands of the students as a reference text. The volume does not attempt to show the relations of the various topics discussed to the field of education in general, or to show general administrative perspective. It is expected that the educational administrator is already familiar with these matters, and that where the book is used as a text, comment and perspective will be supplied by lectures and readings from other books already in the field.

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Contents

TABLE PAGE 62 Relation of standing in entrance examination to standing in college Senior
62
THE CAUSES AND CONDITIONS OF EFFICIENCY IN TEACHING
99
TABLE PAGE 100 The relation between amount spent for salaries of janitors and for teaching
100
Summary of tables 24 and 25
102
Relation of parental income to the years of training of men teachers
103
Relation of parental income to beginning age for men teachers
104
Percentages of cities employing supervisors of special subjects
108
Distribution by sex of supervisors of special subjects 1908
109
Differences in the division of responsibility
110
Median annual salaries of supervisors of special subjects 1908 III
111
secondary school teachers
127
Salaries of public and private school teachers compared
131
113
132
The sex balance in high schools
133
The sex balance in high schools
134
The sex balance in high schools
139
Changes in the sex balance in high schools
142
Changes in the sex balance in high schools
143
American schools
152
1868 1888 1904
154
1868 1888 1904
155
English cities
156
THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CURRICULUM
157
German cities
158
German cities
159
American cities 1911
160
Time allotment for arithmetic and algebra
161
The order in the course of specified topics in arithmetic
162
Time allotment for manual training 1911
163
SIZE OF SCHOOL AS A CONDITIONING FACTOR IN SECONDARY EDUCATION
165
Frequency of different sizes of teaching staff in American high schools
168
Frequency of different sizes of student body in American high schools
169
Relation of size of high school to public support by States
172
THE INEFFICIENCY OF COLLEGE ENTRANCE EXAMINATIONS
176
year
186
Relation of standing in entrance examination to standing in college Sopho more year
187
Studies actually taken for the A B degree Bowdoin
190
Studies actually taken for the A B degree Columbia
191
Studies actually taken for the A B degree Cornell
192
Studies actually taken for the A B degree Harvard
193
Studies actually taken for the A B degree Princeton
194
Studies actually taken for the A B degree Stanford
195
Studies actually taken for the A B degree Wellesley
196
Studies actually taken for the A B degree Wesleyan
197
Studies actually taken for the A B degree Williams
198
THE STUDIES ACTUALLY TAKEN FOR THE A B DEGREE
199
The frequency of specialization
201
The frequency of scattering
202
MEANS OF MEASURING EDUCATIONAL PRODUCTS
207
SCHOOL ACHIEVEMENT IN ARITHMETIC
233
CITY SCHOOL EXPENDITURES
267
Analyzed budgets in percentages
278
Itemized cost per pupil
279
Itemized cost per pupil
283
Itemized cost per pupil
287
Itemized cost per pupil
288
Variability in cost of education
293
Variations among cities in the several items of the budget
296
Variation among cities in the several items of the budget
297
Variation among cities in the several items of the budget
300
Variation among cities in the several items of the budget
301
Variation among cities in the several items of the budget
303
Measures of variability
313
and supervision
314
City expenditures in terms of deviations from the central tendency
321
City expenditures in terms of deviations from the central tendency
322
General tendencies in school budgets
325
Fiscal relations
328
Variations in total cost related to the amount of separate items in the school budget
330
Fiscal relations
334
The stability of the various items of the budget
337
Fiscal relations
339
The salaries of teachers and the cost of living
341
The salaries of teachers and the cost of living
342
Expense in relation to enrollment
346
EXPENDITURES FOR SCHOOLS IN RELATION TO OTHER MUNICIPAL EXPENDI
352
Analyzed city budgets
354
Analyzed city budgets
358
Variability in city budgets
359
Variability in city budgets
360
Relations of various items of city budgets
361
Relations of various items of city budgets
362
Relations of various items of city budgets
363
Variability in city revenues
365
Distribution of ratios of school expenses to population
367
THE APPORTIONMENT OF SCHOOL FUNDS
368
Wealth of Massachusetts counties per census child five to fifteen
373
Tax rate and amount of money produced per pupil
374
Valuation per census child and per school for Fairfield County Connecti cut
375
Inequalities existing in the State of Missouri
376
Inequalities existing in the State of California
377
A comparison of wealth tax rate and cost of schools by counties
378
The relation of the number of teachers and of children to the whole popula tion
379
TABLE PAGE 138 The value of census apportionment on the basis of enrollment
380
Various plans of apportionment
381
Various plans of apportionment
382
Apportionment on census and on teachers compared
383
TABLE PAGE
387
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Page 105 - She is native born of native born parents, both of whom speak the English language. When she entered teaching both of her parents were living and had an annual income of approximately $800 which they were compelled to use to support themselves and their four or five children. The young woman early found the pressure both real and anticipated to earn her own way very heavy.
Page 55 - How many pencils can you buy for 50 cents at the rate of 2 for 5 cents? 5 The uniforms for a baseball nine cost $2.50 each. The shoes cost $2 a pair. What was the total cost of uniforms and shoes for the nine?
Page 261 - Redemption of bonds $. 54. Redemption of short.term loans 55. Payment of warrants and orders of preceding year 56. Payments to sinking funds 57. Payments of interest 58 Miscellaneous payments, including payments to trust funds, textbooks to be sold to pupils, etc 59.
Page 261 - Subventions and grants from state $ . 63. Subventions and grants from county 64. Subventions and grants from other civil divisions •65. Appropriations from city treasury 66. General property taxes •67. Business taxes (licenses, excise taxes, taxes on corporations, taxes on occupations, etc.) 68. Poll taxes •69. Fines and penalties 70. Rents and interest •71. Tuition and other fees from patrons 72.
Page 281 - Your committee is of the opinion that a divisor as little subject to misunderstanding as possible, and one based upon facts which are obtained in the same way everywhere, is of the first importance. The members believe this is provided by item 40, and we have, therefore, made that item the divisor to be used, in connection with items 12 and 13, to obtain what shall be known as the "cost of education.
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