Retardation and Elimination in Graded and Rural Schools

the eleven graded systems given in the table below, and from 139 rural schools of Bureau County, Illinois. Blank forms, asking for a tabulation of the age and grade of all school children enrolled in the different systems, were sent to the superintendents and principals, with the request that these be properly filled out and returned at an early date. The data from the Freeport schools were taken from the annual statement of the superintendent of those schools. These same blanks were sent to the teachers of the rural schools of Bureau County by County Superintendent Claude Brown. All these reports were submitted to the writer of this article for tabulation and study, after which the whole subject