| FIGURE | | PAGE |
| 1. | Average number of high-school units in the approved schools
of the various states of the North Central Association | [6] |
| 2A. | Pauses made in silent reading | [8] |
| 2B. | Pauses made in oral reading | [9] |
| 3. | Diagram showing the organization of German schools and
American schools | [18] |
| 4. | Proportion of public money spent for public schools and
other items | [50] |
| 5. | Distribution in the various grades of each thousand dollars
expended for instruction | [59] |
| 6. | Floor plan of a typical school building of the old style | [79] |
| 7. | Floor plan of a well-arranged one-teacher rural school of
minimum cost | [80] |
| 8. | An old and a new rural school | [81] |
| 9A. | Ground plan of Alabama School | [83] |
| 9B. | Exterior of Alabama School | [83] |
| 10A. | Ground plan of Empire School | [84] |
| 10B. | Exterior of Empire School | [84] |
| 11. | Record of nonpromotions and failures in Cleveland, 1914 | [103] |
| 12. | Enrollment in private vocational schools and in public high
schools of Chicago | [133] |
| 13. | Individual differences in the number of lines read in a minute
by pupils in the fifth grades of two schools | [181] |
| 14. | Average quality and average speed of handwriting of pupils
of the four upper grades in ten schools | [218] |
| 15. | Speed and quality of handwriting | [223] |
| 16. | Distribution of grades in various Harvard classes | [263] |