Excerpt from City School Systems in the United States The object Of this report is to strengthen this tendency to uniformity of excellence by a general survey, historical, critical, and comparative, of certain features and characteristics Of our city systems of schools, more especially those features and characteristics in which there is found the greatest diversity in respect to progress towards the ideal standard. 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.