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Excerpt from Annual Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of the Commonwealth of Virginia: With Accompanying Documents; School Year 1940-41 The material contained in this report deals with the activities of the 'state Department of Education under the leadership of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, Sidney B. Hall, who retired from office on August 31, 1941. During the year continued emphasis was placed upon the improvement of instruction. There were notable gains made in the percentage of teachers holding degrees from accredited colleges. There was gratifying progress in the programs of Special and Adult Education. Perhaps the greatest single undertaking was the development during the year of the defense training classes under the general direction of the Division of Vocational Education. 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.