Excerpt from The Pennsylvania State Normal Schools and Public School System This study in practical school administration was undertaken in the spring of 1910 in connection with the graduate work I was then doing at Teachers College. Grateful acknowledgment for helpful criticisms and suggestions is especially due the committee in charge of my dissertation, - Professors Monroe, Suzzallo and Strayer. I am also indebted to Professor E. L. Thorndike and Mr. M. B. Hillegas, of Teachers College, who carefully examined the statistical tables I have prepared in connection with my study. To Professor E. P. Cubberley, of Leland Stanford, Junior, University, I am indebted for the critical examination of several of the chapters and to Mr. H. B. Moore, of the Boys High School, Louisville, Kentucky, for assistance in revising my manuscript. Finally, I must take this opportunity to thank the leading educators of Pennsylvania for their suggestions and encouragement and for the careful reading of my thesis. 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.