EDUCATION 
379-15 
School supervision and control: national, state 
and local Centralization 
Standardization of schools 
National 
State: department, inspectors, etc. 
Local: superintendent, school committee, board 
Supplies, free textbooks, etc. For school meals see 371.716 
[ndividual: parents and others 
State textbooks 
Public colleges and universities: national, state 
and local 
Only discussion here; for individual colleges see 378.4—.9 
Secondary schools | 
Discussion. For individual schools see 379.4~.9 
Highschools Academies 
6 year highschools; junior highschools 
Grammar schools 
Rural schools 
Central plan Consolidated schools Conveying 
pupils 
Elementary schools Kindergartens 
Questions of public maintenance. For individual schools see 372.9 
Part time schools Evening schools 
See also 374.8 
2 Illiteracy Instruction of illiterates 
21 Illiteracy and crime Education and crime 
Criminal illiterates 
[literacy and pauperism Indigent illiterates 
See also 339.1 Pauperism; 362.51 Poorhouses 
Compulsory education 
See also 271.2 Truancv 
172 
173 
175 
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3 Public vs private and endowd schools 
.4-.0 Special countries, sections, cities, etc. 
Subdivided like 940-999: e.g. 379.73 Reports of U.S. commissioner 
of education; 379.744 Education in Massachusetts; 379.7471 in New 
York city. Keep state departments separate from city and other local 
systems by numbering state reports, A1-A8, using Ag followd by 
author's initial (lower case) for history of schools of any state: e.g. 
Ritch’s New York public schools 37q.747 Aof