...education in America. The mission of the first Department of Education, created in 1867, was to "collect... such statistics and facts as shall show the condition...education in the several States and territories." While today's education and the task of assessing its scope, quality, and impact are immensely more...

...America. The mission of the first Department of Education, created in 1867, was to “collect...such statistics and facts as shall show the condition and...education in the several States and territories.” While today's education and the task of assessing its scope, qua1ity¿ and impact are immensely more...

...limited. Although a federal Department of Education had been created in 1867 to collect and disseminate "such statistics and facts as shall show the condition...education in the several States and Territories," the department's early history had been troubled.1 In characteristic nineteenth-century fashion, its...

...The bill provided, among other things, that there should be established in the city of Washington, a Department of Education for the purpose of collecting...information respecting the organization and management of schools and school systems and the methods of teaching as shall aid the people of the United States...

...functions. The Bureau's organic act set out its highly circumscribed purpose, which was to collect "such statistics and facts as shall show the condition...education in the several states and territories, and [to diffuse] such information respecting the organization and management of schools and school systems,...

...established by the Act of March 2nd, 1867 [7]: "for the purpose of (1) collecting such statistics of facts as shall show the condition and progress of...education in the several States and territories; and (2) diffusing such information respecting the organisation and management of school systems and methods...