Kentucky General Education Board
Published: 2017-10-16
Total Pages: 286
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Excerpt from Public Education in Kentucky, 1921: A Report by the Kentucky Educational Commission; Prepared Under the Direction of the Commission Dr. Leonard P. Ayres, one of the foremost authorities in the field of public education, has recently published a comparative study of the efficiency of state school systems. According to Dr. Ayres, Kentucky ranked thirty-fifth in 1890, thirty - sixth in 1900, fortieth in 1910, and forty-fifth in 1918. That is, during the last four decades Kentucky has steadily fallen behind, when com pared with the other states and territories. In illiteracy Kentucky ranked thirty-sixth in 1900, in 1910, and in 1920. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.