Improving Education In The Southern States

Excerpt from Improving Education in the Southern States, 1941: Results of the Committee on Negro Education The results of all these changes and of course, cannot be accurately measured. It is an established fact that the amount of illiteracy among Negroes has been materially reduced. How ever, at least 10 per cent of the Negroes are still classed as illiterates and another rather substantial percentage has had such limited schooling that no very tangible results are apparent. In general, however, as the percentage of Negroes attending high school and college has increased, the number of Negroes who have entered professional work and who have achieved a higher economic level has increased correspondingly. While almost every trend has shown material improvement, some of the gains have been relatively slow and have not kept pace with changes which have occurred in other groups. The problem of improving Negro education is not merely a problem of making gains from a given starting point but also a problem of overcoming many handicaps in ratios so that the relative status will be improved. Some progress has been made in this latter respect, but, in many instances, the relative status has not been greatly improved during recent years. For other information on Trends, see Chapter I of Bulletin No. 1, State and Local Financing of Schools. 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.

This is the story of public education from 1900 to 1924 in the states that constituted the Confederacy. It gives a view, not only of the actual educational situation in 1900, but also of the social, economic, and political conditions that had prevailed there for two or three decades following the Civil War and were important to the educational problems of the South. Originally published in 1924. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.