| 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 |