The author was a Supervisor of Practice Teaching at the Milwaukee State Normal School. He had been a teacher and school administrator for many years prior to holding that position, and spent a year in Europe studying their school systems.

This volume is in three parts. Part 1 is a history of public education in Wisconsin, from elementary level to University. Part 2 is the author’s proposal for reorganizing the public school system. Part 3 consists of summaries of educational laws from 1836 to the time of publication.