Excerpt from Sixty-Eighth Annual Report of the Board of Education: Together With the Sixty-Eighth Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board, 1903 1904; January 1905 I. - members and appointees OF the board OF education, II. - report OF the board OF education, III. Reports OF the state normal schools, Bridgewater. Fitchburg, Framingham, Hyannis, Lowell, North Adams, Salem, State Normal Art, Westfield, Worcester, Statistical, IV. Secretary's report, Education at public and private expense. The school policy of Massachusetts, Summary of statistics for 1903-04, School attendance, Length of school year, Teachers and their qualifications, Some reasons for scarcity of qualified teachers, Proposed means for increasing number of qualified teachers, Qualifications of high school teachers, Supervision of schools by superintendents, Status of the school superintendent, Examination of school superintendents, Special preparation of superintendents, List of superintendents and superintendency unions, Cost of the schools, State aid and reimbursement of tuition to high schools, Distribution of the income of the school fund, Agents of the Board, Teachers' institutes, Evening schools, Kindergartens, Vacation schools, Music in schools, Music in high schools, Physiology and hygiene, Suggestions for the organization of the teachers of the State, Recommendations. 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.