Cooley, E. G. Vocational education in Europe: Report to the Commercial club of Chicago. Chicago, The Commercial club of Chicago, 1912. 347 p. illus. 8°. Farrington, F. E. French secondary schools; an account of the origin, development, and present organization of secondary education in France. New York [etc.], Longmans, Green & co., 1910. xii, 450 p. 8°. Hollister, H. A. High school administration. Boston, D. C. Heath & co., 1909. xi,379 p. 8°. * * tr. by T. Lorenz. Paulsen, Friedrich. German education, past and present Stout, J. E. The high school; its function, organization, and administration * * The foreign surveys, especially the British, French, Belgian, and Swedish, have been examined and compared, as well as the general foreign monographs relating to the subject. CHAPTER XXVI. DENOMINATIONAL SCHOOLS. Compiled by J. O. Knott, Editorial Division, Bureau of Education. CONTENTS.-General survey-Roman Catholic parish schools-The Lutheran parochial schools-Presbyterian Church schools-The schools of the Mormon Church-Denominational schools for IndiansThe church and negro education. Of the approximately 100,000,000 people in the United States—exclusive of Alaska and the insular possessions-about 40 per cent are reported as church communicants. This estimate of communicants does not include the nearly 2,500,000 Jews in the country, practically all of whom are affiliated with some synagogue. The Jews in this country conduct only five parochial schools, with an enrollment of less than 1,000 pupils, these out of a total population of school age amounting to about 500,000. All of these five schools are located in New York City, in some of the most congested districts inhabited by immigrants who have arrived in this country only recently. The Jews, however, have an extensive equipment for religious instruction which is given to children attending the public schools of the country after public school hours. Their distinctive religious schools are fully described in the Report of the Commissioner of Education, 1913.1 The total Roman Catholic membership in the United States is about 16,000,000. An extended notice of the parochial or parish schools of this church first appeared in the commissioner's report for 1888-89. Since then, from time to time, reports from these schools similar to the one given in this issue have appeared. The total Lutheran communion in our country is reckoned at about 2,400,000. The parochial schools of this denomination were first noted briefly in the commissioner's report for 1904. The schools. were given a special chapter in the report of 1913,5 and a brief statement also appears this year. An The total Mormon Church membership is given as 356,000. extended description of these schools appeared in the report of 1913," and a brief report appears again this year. 1 Rep. Commis. Ed., 1913, ch. 16, p. 365. 2 See Table 2, p. 602. 8 H. K. Carroll. Bulletin of church statistics for 1914. 4 Rep. Commis. Ed., 1904, ch. 15, p. 990. Ibid, 1913, ch. 17, p. 395. The 22,000,000 church communicants remaining, representing the bulk of the numerous Protestant denominations in the United States, are doing considerable educational work-much of it of nonsectarian sort-that does not find a place in any of the bureau's publications. For example, the annual sum expended in 1912-13 for current expenses on private and higher education for negroes in the United States amounted to about $4,000,000. Of this sum, the church boards gave approximately one-half. The bulk of this $2,000,000 was given by churches whose work is not reported except in the records of the several denominations. An attempt, therefore, is made in this chapter to embody the educational efforts of the church as a whole by including not only what the distinctive parochial schools are doing, but also any other specific work not elsewhere reported by this bureau that adds to the sum of attempts to educate the people. As there are about 186 different religious denominations in the United States, ranging in numbers from a few hundred to over 16,000,000, the reports given in this chapter are necessarily incomplete and cover work done mainly by the larger church boards. The work of the Young Men's Christian Association was fully set forth in last year's report. The work of the association, with special reference to immigrant education, is given in some detail this year in chapter 20, p. 444. The work of the churches in behalf of immigrants is given also in chapter 20, p. 446, and will not this year receive further notice. ROMAN CATHOLIC PARISH SCHOOLS. By Rev. Patrick J. McCormick, Instructor in Education, Catholic University, Washington, D. C. In the school year 1913-14 the Catholic parish school system in the United States maintained about the same ratio of growth as in the previous year. With the unusual increase of 913,827 in the Catholic population figures, due to the complete statistics of the Ruthenian Greek Catholics, which were gathered that year for the first time, the schools increased 147 and the pupils 69,098 over the numbers reported for the previous year. The total of schools in all the dioceses of the country was 5,403 and the total of pupils 1,429,859, as compared with 5,256 schools and 1,360,761 pupils in 1912-13. (See Table 2.) No material changes in administration are to be noted. The personnel of the supervisory officers has been affected by the appointment of the Rev. Augustine F. Hickey, S. T. L., as supervisor of schools in the archdiocese of Boston, in place of the Rev. George A. 1 Rep. Commis. Ed., 1913, ch. 26, p. 573. Lyons; and by the appointment of the Rev. Hugo Tell, O. S. B., as superintendent of schools in the diocese of Crookston, in place of the Rev. Gerald Speilman, O. S. B. In the diocese of Columbus the Rev. John P. Curran has become an associate superintendent, with the Rev. John J. Murphy. No assistant superintendent was that year recorded for the diocese of Buffalo. In some dioceses, e. g., Trenton, N. J., the school boards were reorganized, and in some others slight numerical changes were reported in the membership of the boards. (See Table 1.) The high-school movement continues to spread. Each year brings new evidence of the value of parish high schools in completing the Catholic system, and an indication of the general satisfaction over this growth may be had in the resolution adopted at the Baltimore convention of the American Federation of Catholic Societies, held September 28-October 1: We note with satisfaction the multiplication of Catholic high schools, academies, and colleges, the ever-increasing attendance of these institutions, and give our heartiest encouragement to the whole Catholic educational movement. The opening of the St. Regis High School, New York, in connection. with St. Ignatius Church, and under the care of the Jesuit fathers, may be cited as a notable example for the year. The process of standardization of high schools through affiliation with the Catholic University of America resulted in the addition of 23 institutions to the accredited list during 1913-14. The affiliated high schools reached the number 70. They are distributed over 21 States as follows: Alabama, 1; California, 3; Colorado, 2; Connecticut, 1; Georgia, 2; Illinois, 3; Indiana, 1; Iowa, 1; Kentucky, 3; Massachusetts, 4; Michigan, 2; Minnesota, 1; Missouri, 2; New York, 3; Ohio, 17; Oregon, 1; Pennsylvania, 6; Tennessee, 1; Texas, 10; Washington, 1; Wisconsin, 4. There should also be noted an increase in the facilities for the improvement of teachers in service by the extension of the summer school movement under university auspices. As in the previous year, summer sessions for teachers were held at Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wis.; De Paul University, Chicago, Ill.; Creighton University, Omaha, Nebr.; and the Catholic University of America, Washington, D. C. The last named, being the summer session of Sisters College, opened at the close of the school year an extension in Dubuque, Iowa, which enrolled 236 students, of whom 221 were teaching sisters. Tables 1 and 2 are based on data supplied by the Official Catholic Directory, published annually by P. J. Kenedy & Sons, N. Y. |