Thirteenth Annual Report of the Board of Education of the City and County of New York. For the Year Ending January 1, 1855. With supplementary reports, plates, and floor plans

Hardcover 8vo, rebacked in sympathetically styled cloth and with cosmetic restoration to corners, otherwise Very Good. A formative look at the New York Public School System during an early period of great expansion. The report champions the successful development of the Common School System from a resort for "charity scholars" to providing a quality of education that appeals to "every rank and class of children," even those in upper-class families who would have previously enrolled in private schools. There is enthusiastic reporting on the Free Academy (ancestor to the CUNY/SUNY system), which is touted as the highest evidence of the Common School System's purpose and success.Includes all of the expected financial disclosures and pecuniary details (including a proposed "public education stock"), as well as an in-depth look at the pedagogical considerations being made in the public school system's formative years—not only what books to use, but what the scope of public education itself