Committee of Fifteen - American Education

A NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION group formed in 1893 to study and recommend reforms for elementary school education in the United States. The committee issued its report in 1895, supporting the prevailing eight-year system of elementary schooling, with grammar, literature, arithmetic, geography and history as core subjects. The committee recommended that each be taught as separate subjects, instead of correlated in a single broad subject in which students jumped in and out of each subdivision at random.