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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF EDUCATION
BULLETIN, 1919, No. 59
SOME PHASES OF EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS
IN LATIN AMERICA
By
WALTER A. MONTGOMERY
SPECIALIST IN FOREIGN EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS
BUREAU OF EDUCATION
[Advance Sheets from the Biennial Survey of Education, 1916-1918]
WASHINGTON
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
1920
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SOME PHASES OF EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS IN LATIN AMERICA.
By Walter A. Montgomery,
Specialist in Foreign Educational Systems, Bureau of Education.
Contents.—Central America: Practical education; Guatemala;Salvador; Honduras; Costa Rica; Nicaragua; Panama—British Guiana:New school regulation—Argentina: Preliminary; illiteracy; report ofNational Council of Education; progress of education in the Provinces;changes under the projected law of 1918; secondary education;technical education; normal-school training; higher education—Brazil:Vocational education—Chile: Preliminary; illiteracy; primaryeducation; secondary education; training of teachers; technicaleducation—Uruguay: General introduction; primary education, publicand private; rural schools; medical inspection of schools; secondaryeducation; commercial education; training of teachers; highereducation—Venezuela.
PRACTICAL EDUCATION IN CENTRAL AMERICA.
One of the most interesting aspects of the school situation in CentralAmerica and Panama is the important position occupied by commercialand industrial education in the courses of study of many institutions.Public men and teachers in Guatemala, Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua,Costa Rica, and Panama have taken into account the need of offering tothe new generation an education which shall be completely practical,with the purpose of turning the thoughts and energies of all the youthto fruitful service