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by
FRANKLIN BOBBITT
Assistant Professor of Educational Administration
The University of Chicago
1915
CLEVELAND EDUCATION SURVEY
Leonard P. Ayres, Director
The Survey Committee of the Cleveland Foundation
Cleveland, Ohio
Charles E. Adams, Chairman
Thomas G. Fitzsimons
Myrta L. Jones
Bascom Little
Victor W. Sincere
Arthur D. Baldwin, Secretary
James R. Garfield, Counsel
Newton D. Baker, Counsel
Alien T. Burns, Director
This report on "What the Schools Teach and Might Teach" is one ofthe 25 sections of the report of the Education Survey of Clevelandconducted by the Survey Committee of the Cleveland Foundation in1915. Twenty-three of these sections will be published as separatemonographs. In addition there will be a larger volume giving a summaryof the findings and recommendations relating to the regular work ofthe public schools, and a second similar volume giving the summary ofthose sections relating to industrial education. Copies of all thesepublications may be obtained from the Cleveland Foundation. They mayalso be obtained from the Division of Education of the Russell SageFoundation, New York City. A complete list will be found in the backof this volume, together with prices.
Foreword
List of Tables
Prefatory Statement
The Point of View
Reading and Literature
Spelling
Handwriting
Language, Composition, Grammar
Mathematics
Algebra
Geometry
History
Civics
Geography
Drawing and Applied Art
Manual Training and Household Arts
Elementary Science
High School Science
Physiology and Hygiene
Physical Training
Music
Foreign Languages
Differentiation of Courses
Summary
TABLE
1. Time given to reading and literature
2. Sets of supplementary reading books per building
3. Weeks given to reading of different books in
High School of Commerce
4. Time given to spelling
5. Time given to handwriting
6. Time given to language, composition, and grammar
7. Time given to arithmetic
8. Time given to history
9. Time given to geography
10. Time given to drawing
11. Time given to manual training
12. Time given to science, physiology, hygiene
13. Time given to physical training
14. Time given to music
For an understanding of some of the characteristics of this report itis necessary to mention certain of the conditions under which it wasprepared.
The printed course of study for the elementary schools to be foundin June, 1915, the time the facts were gathered for this report, wasprepared under a former administration. While its main outlines werestill held to, it was being departed from in individual schools inmany respects. Except occasionally it was not possible to