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Romesburg, James Eric – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This dissertation explores the role first-year composition (FYC) courses play in the academic lives of working-class adult students in the University of Louisville, an institution that, during portions of its long history, has been a valuable educational resource for working adults in the Louisville area. A confluence of political and…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Evening Programs, Nontraditional Students, Standardized Tests
United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1913
To the people of no other country is the problem of education of immigrants of so much importance as to the people of the United States. No other country has so many men, women, and children coming to its shores every year from all parts of the world. In many of our cities and towns, and in some of our States, the people of foreign birth…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Illiteracy, Access to Education, Public Education
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Seay, Sandra E. – Adult Learning, 2005
Having stressful workdays is not the sole prerogative of adult students enrolled in educational leadership programs. According to a report released by the American Institute of Stress in 2002, 80% of adult workers felt stress in the workplace. From this it can be assumed that a certain amount of stress accompanies every adult who enters an evening…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Evening Programs, Adult Learning, Adult Students
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
United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1911
The purpose of high-school education has generally been twofold--not only to furnish preparation for college, but also to provide some of the elements of a liberal education for those whose formal and directed study is to go no further. In not a few communities high schools were established in which the former purpose was expressly waived; but…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, College Preparation, Mathematics Education, Correspondence Schools
National Academy for Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (NJ1), 2011
This volume presents 64 abstracts of keynote and parallel paper presentations of the Irish National Academy for Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning's (NAIRTL) conference on the theme of flexible learning. The Flexible Learning conference was a joint initiative by NAIRTL and the Learning Innovation Network. The keynote presentations can…
Descriptors: Open Education, Foreign Countries, Information Technology, Educational Technology
United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1914
This bulletin presents a monthly record of books and articles. Of the publications listed, only those named in the sections headed "Bureau of Education: Recent publications," and "Bulletin of the Bureau of Education," are available for free distribution by this Office. All others may ordinarily be obtained from their respective publishers, either…
Descriptors: Periodicals, Professional Associations, Professional Education, School Administration
United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1914
This bulletin contains a representative selection of books and articles for the month of October, 1914. Following the Introductory Notes, the publications are organized into the following topic areas: (1) Publications of associations; (2) Educational history and biography; (3) Current educational conditions; (4) Pedagogics and didactics; (5)…
Descriptors: Business Education, Periodicals, Professional Associations, Professional Education
Taylor, E. H. – United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1915
The object of this report is to give an account, in such a form as to allow comparisons, of the instruction in mathematics in the Lower and Middle Commercial and Industrial Schools in the countries reporting to the International Commission on the Teaching of Mathematics. The data of this report have been taken entirely from the reports of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Mathematics Education, Mathematics Instruction
United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1909
What is presented in this bulletin is the first essay in the history of the Bureau of Education toward a comprehensive index of the annual reports of the Commissioner. It includes authors and subjects with an analysis of the more important articles, for the years 1876 to 1907, inclusive. [Best copy available has been provided.]
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Indexes, Government Publications
Sassani, Abul H. K. – Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1952
The Office of Education has undertaken the preparation of a series of basic studies on education in a number of countries in Europe and Central and South America. This series of studies was made a part of a program to promote understanding of education conditions in those areas and also to furnish the American college registrars with data on…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, World History