. Reports of the missionary and benevolent boards and committees to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America . istian Education. The rapid growth of public educationin the U. S. challenges the attention of the ^ In 1912 there were 1,075 more high schools and 131,501 more high school students than in theprevious year. The increase in the number of high schools duringthe year was a little less than 9%. The increase in the number ofhigh school students was more than 12%. The increase in highschool students for that one year was nearly 50% more than
. Reports of the missionary and benevolent boards and committees to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America . istian Education. The rapid growth of public educationin the U. S. challenges the attention of the ^ In 1912 there were 1,075 more high schools and 131,501 more high school students than in theprevious year. The increase in the number of high schools duringthe year was a little less than 9%. The increase in the number ofhigh school students was more than 12%. The increase in highschool students for that one year was nearly 50% more than theaverage increase for the four years previous, and it was more thanfour times as great as the average increase of the preceding 20 proportion of high school students to the scholastic populationwas three times as great as in 1890. In 1890 there were 2,526 highschools with 202,963 students, while in 1912 there were 13,268 highschools with 1,246,827 students. Nearly 90% of all the high schoolstudents are in the public high schools. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION. 29 Groujtb of EnrollroGot in3tatc Universities ^*-^layo -1913. The growth of the state universities is shown by the abovechart. In 1890 there were 22,816 students, in 1912, 131,104 andfor the year ended June 30, 1913 there were 147,409, an increase of16,305 over the preceding year. There are 87 state universities and state colleges in the UnitedStates. Presbyterian pastors are employed in 14 of these, and theBoard is cooperating with local churches in 13 other universitycentres. A total of 27. The need of similar work in other insti-tutions is very great. Many of the states allow the reading of the Biblein the public school, a few require it, and a few forbidit, but, at the best, there is only the formal readingof a brief portion, and there is nothing done that can be called Chris-tian teaching. The responsibility for this rests upon the churches. ReligiousInstruction SURVEY OF STATE UNIVERSITIES. D
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