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  • Report of the Commissioner of Education for the Year 1877. Part 1 Business Schools Kindergarten College Preparation Womens Education Universities Colleges Science Education Theological Education Legal Education (Professions) Medical Education Academic Degrees Public Libraries Museums Special Schools Deafness Blindness Industrial Education Intellectual Disability Publications Intellectual Property Furniture Educational Finance Financial Support School Statistics Public Agencies Foreign Countries Labor Catalogs African American Education Textbooks Supervision Urban Education Public Schools Hygiene Police School Relationship Sanitation Wages Teacher Educators High Schools College Students Health Vacation Programs Secondary Schools Single Sex Colleges Crime Art Education Government Libraries In this report, the Commissioner of Education offers discussion and statistical summaries on: general educational condition; conflict of capital and labor; the work of his office; school and college catalogues; state and territorial education condition; schools for the colored race; township school systems; free textbooks; education supervision; city education; public school hygiene; education vs. police; janitors' wages; normal schools; pedagogic professorships; business colleges; kindergarten; secondary schools; the high school question; secondary instruction abroad; foreign secondary instruction; preparatory schools; colleges for women; universities and colleges; condition of superior instruction; college student health; vacation schools; schools of science, theology, law, and medicine; degrees conferred; public libraries, including early American libraries; the Library of Congress; the Office of the Commissioner library; schools for the deaf and dumb, and for the blind; educational benefactions; schools for the feeble minded; patentees for school-furniture improvements; foreign education; art education; orphan asylums; soldiers' orphan homes; infant asylums; industrial schools; miscellaneous charities; reform schools; and crime and education; and makes recommendations and a conclusion. Abstracted official reports from state, territorial, and city school officers are provided along with other information. Educational conventions and associations are noted. Detailed statistical tables the topics above are provided. [Part 2 is not available.]