Education

William J. Cooper was appointed commissioner of education, and Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, secretary of the interior. The Office of Education during 1929 commenced its survey of secondary education throughout the country. Other educational developments in 1929 were the accrediting of Negro colleges according to their ability to do work acceptable for admission to medical schools by the American Medical Association; the decision of the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools to inaugurate a policy of rating Negro colleges within its territory; the appointment of a commission by the American Council of Education to study the problem of introducing social sciences in the public schools; the creation of a single board of control for all the public higher educational institutions of the states of Oregon; the study of the problems of articulation between the different units of the American public-school system, including elemetary, secondary, collegiate, university, and professional education contained in the Seventh Yearbook of the Department of Superintendence of the National Education Association; and the Carnegie report on college athletics

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