--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 23 number: 9 published: 1920-07 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Progress of Education in Utah, Since 1913," *Improvement Era* 23, no. 9 (July 1920). source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2309unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera2309unse curator_note: Unpaginated editorial front matter; the facing page is a portrait caption for pioneer teacher Mary Jane Dilworth Hammond. rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1920-07) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2309unse publication_year: 1920 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1920, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Progress of Education in Utah, Since 1913 Progress of Education in Utah, Since 1913 (From Reports by the State Superintendent of Schools and the Russell Sage Foundation) Utah school teachers, of whom there were 777 male and 2,670 female, in 1919, or a total of 3,447, number, for 1920, 3,640, with even a larger proportion of female teachers. In 1913, there were altogether 2,637 teachers. School buildings in which schools are held number 687. The valuation of school property, in 1918, was $12,865,450, divided as follows: Buildings, $11,935,838; equipment, $697,- 924; books and supplies, $231,688; and the value of school property in 1919 was $13,900,000. It was estimated at $8,- 000,000 in 1913. Children numbered 128,846, in 1919, —64,707 boys, and 64,- 139 girls —of whom 110,193 received instruction in the schools; as against 111,331 children of school age in 1913, of whom 95,- 000 received instruction in the schools. The amount expended for the support of elementary and secondary schools in 1919 was $5,800,000 as against $4,000,000 in 1913. The increase in enrollment in high schools, in the United States is one hundred times as great as in 1870, having increased from 19,000 then to 2,000,000, now. Since 1913 the high school enrollment in Utah has increased from 6,000 to 14,000. The standard of qualification of teachers is a high school education and one year college study. This was lowered during the war, but is rapidly being raised again. Utah has made the greatest gain in education in the past 30 years, according to a recent report of Dr. Leonard P. Ayres, director of the Department of Education of the Russell Sage Foundation, and, (among the 48 states and the District of Columbia) stands 8th in line, Montana being first with 75.8, standing; then California 71.2, Arizona 66.2, New Jersey 65.9, District of Columbia 64.3, Washington 63.7, Iowa 61.09, Utah 61.4; then 14th, Colorado 59.2; Nevada 16th, 59; Idaho 18th, 58.6; Wyoming 25th, 56.7; South Carolina, last, 29.4.