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Kefauver, Grayson N.; Noll, Victor H.; Drake, C. Elwood – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1933
This manuscript was written by Grayson N. Kefauver, a part-time specialist, and Victor H. Noll and C. Elwood Drake, full-time specialists engaged on the National Survey of Secondary Education. It deals with pupils who attended the part-time continuation school's four or more hours a week and also with those who attended evening high schools. It…
Descriptors: Secondary Education, National Surveys, Part Time Students, Evening Programs
O'Leary, Iris Prouty – United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1915
This bulletin deals with the teaching of cooking for home-making purposes in the day and evening classes of the vocational school. Throughout the bulletin "vocational school" will be used as a term which includes both industrial schools and household-arts schools. Vocational schools include all agricultural, industrial, commercial, and…
Descriptors: Females, Evening Programs, Vocational Schools, Cooking Instruction
Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1920
In April, 1919, at the request of the Board of Education of Memphis, Tennessee, the United States Commissioner of Education submitted the conditions on which the Bureau of Education would make a survey of the public school system of that city. This study of the Memphis schools is intended to be a study of policies and practices; not of persons.…
Descriptors: Evening Programs, Vocational Education, Vocational Schools, Industrial Arts
Proffitt, Maris M. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1929
The past two years have witnessed a continued and an increasing emphasis upon vocational-industrial and manual-arts types of work in the school curriculum, and a further adjustment of the work to make it a still more effective factor in the realization of the aims of the public schools. In general there has been considerable growth in the…
Descriptors: Evening Programs, Industrial Education, Vocational Education, Housing
Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1921
The traditional secondary school limited its instruction to full time pupils. Rather than adapt the kind and amount of work to the necessities of the pupil who cannot attend full time, it apparently preferred to have him leave school altogether. While frowning upon an elective system within the school, it felt no qualms in allowing the great…
Descriptors: Educational History, High School Students, Secondary Education, Administrative Organization
Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1925
This report presents the statistics of public schools in cities for the school year 1921-1922. The bureau has followed the classification based upon population as reported by the Bureau of the Census in 1920. Group I includes all cities having a population of 100,000 or more; Group II includes cities having a population of 30,000 or more, but…
Descriptors: Expenditures, School Buildings, Urban Schools, Junior High Schools
Blose, David T.; Alves, Henry F. – US Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1941
This bulletin presents statistics of state school systems in 1937-38. For the most part statistics presented in this chapter relate to public elementary and secondary schools in 48 States, the District of Columbia, and the outlying parts of the United States. Such data were submitted by States for nonpublic schools are incorporated in separate…
Descriptors: Educational History, School Statistics, Statistical Surveys, National Surveys