...public school bureau, nor indeed is it merely a school bureau at all. It was established and maintained 'for the purpose of collecting such statistics and...diffusing such information respecting the organization of schools and school systems and methods of teaching as shall aid the people of the United States...

...exercised and performed by the Secretary of Education. (7) The Department of Education shall collect such statistics and facts as shall show the condition...and progress of education in the several States and in foreign countries. In order to aid the people of the several States in establishing and maintaining...

...purposes were to collect statistics and facts on education in the states and territories, to diffuse such information respecting the organization and management...schools and school systems and methods of teaching as would aid in the establishment and maintenance of efficient school systems, and otherwise promote the...

...creates it defines the work it shall perform, it being founded "for the purpose of collecting uuch statistics and facts as shall show the condition and progress of education i» tho several States aud Territories, and of Jitlusing such information respecting the organisation...

...of Education, the purpose and duties of which shall !)e to collect statistics and facts showing the condition and progress of education in the several States and Territories, and to diffuse such information respecting the organization and management of schools and school systems,...

...AUTHORITY.—The Office of Education was created by an act of March 2, 1867 (14 Stat. 434; 20 USC 1), to collect such statistics and facts as shall show the condition and progress of education, to diffuse such information as shall aid the people of the United States in the establishment and maintenance...

...tradition of the Office of Education, which in the language of the original congressional mandate was "...for the purpose of collecting such statistics...education in the several States and Territories...." NCES provides leadership in many areas of educational statistics, relates educational statistics to...

...The Office of Education was created by an act of March 2, 1867 (14 Stat. 434; 20 USC 1 ) , to collect such statistics and facts as shall show the condition and progress of education, to diffuse such information as shall aid the people of the United States in the establishment and maintenance...

...the 1800's were similarly general and unspecific: * * * to collect statistics and facts showing the condition and progress of education in the several states and territories and to diffuse such information respecting the organization and management of schools and school systems,...

...the 1800's were similarly general and unspecinc: * * * to collect statistics and facts showing the condition and progress of education in the several states and territories and to diffuse such information respecting the organization and management of schools and school systems,...