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Bawden, William T. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1920
The high school is the pupil's college. Upon its character, its spirit, and its work depend not only the knowledge and skill, but also the ideas and mental attitude of a very large majority of the men and women who will rise to positions of influence in industrial, social, and civic life. The preparation and later success of those who enter…
Descriptors: Educational History, Principals, High Schools, School Administration
Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1916
This bulletin presents the report of a survey of State higher educational institutions of Iowa, made under the direction of the Commissioner of Education for the Iowa State Board of Education by the committee appointed by the Commissioner. The introduction provides background on the development and purpose of the survey. Contents include: (1)…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Liberal Arts, Physical Education, Extension Agents
Updegraff, Harlan – United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1912
The object of this bulletin is threefold: (1) to provide those charged with the administration of public schools in the largest cities of the United States the means of making exact comparisons of cost between any two or more cities, with a minimum of effort; (2) to establish certain standards by which any item of expense of any city of 30,000…
Descriptors: Expenditures, Urban Schools, Urban Education, Public Schools
Deffenbaugh, Walter S. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1922
In this bulletin are given the salaries paid administrative and supervisory officers in cities having a population of 25,000 or over, also the salaries paid all employees connected with the school administrative offices in cities having a population of over 100,000. Unfortunately some of the superintendents in this group of cities did not report…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Boards of Education, Educational History, Urban Schools
Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1920
Undoubtedly the most critical question now before the university and college public is the question of salaries. The avowed purpose of many of the drives for additional funds for the support of the higher institutions is the increasing of the salaries of college officers and teachers. It is well known that the general level of such salaries is far…
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Finance, Salaries, College Faculty
Schneider, Elsa – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1959
Physical education is considered to be an integral part of the curriculum in good elementary schools. Many inquiries come to the Office of Education concerning the role of the classroom teachers and the special teacher of physical education, the policies and procedures which school systems follow in administering the physical education program,…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Elementary Schools, Urban Schools, Program Administration
Bodenman, Paul S. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1959
The Office of Education frequently receives requests for information regarding the educational developments in the Soviet Zone of Germany. This bulletin is issued by the Office of Education as another in its longstanding series of international education publications. Unlike most bulletins in this series that are based on firsthand interviews and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, School Administration, Technical Education, Educational Facilities
United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1915
Special statistical reports on public, society, and school libraries have been published periodically by the United States Bureau of Education. Nine of these reports have appeared in the past 40 years, the last one, preceding the present 1913 report, presented the statistics of 1908. The earlier reports included the names of all libraries…
Descriptors: Statistical Data, School Libraries, Library Schools, Public Libraries
Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1920
This bulletin contains statistical data of the schools and classes for the blind from the years 1917-1918. The data is organized into the following contents: (1) Number of schools reporting; (2) Dual schools; (3) Control; (4) Instructors; (5) Number of pupils; (6) Graduates; (7) Enrollment by grades; (8) Enrollment by courses of study; (9) Value…
Descriptors: Blindness, Special Schools, Special Classes, Educational Administration
Foster, Emery M.; Lathrop, Edith A. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1938
This report includes library statistics for both public elementary and high schools for the school year 1934-35. The data are based upon replies to a questionnaire, which was sent to 6,327 superintendents of city and county public schools in the continental United States. The items listed on the form called for replies representing totals for all…
Descriptors: Counties, Rural Schools, School Libraries, State Departments of Education
Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1926
This bulletin contains the statistics of 739 private commercial and business schools for 1924-25, and of 20 public commercial and business high schools for the same year. There has been a considerable decrease since 1920, both in the number of private schools reporting and in the enrollment. At least 275 schools reporting in 1920 have gone out of…
Descriptors: Accounting, Evening Programs, Salesmanship, Average Daily Attendance
Talbot, Winthrop – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1916
"Illiterates" are those who have not learned to write in any language. This is the definition on which American and most foreign statistics of illiteracy are based, because the percentage of those who can read but can not write is so small that it may be ignored. The test of writing one's name and ordinary words is simple, easily…
Descriptors: Working Class, Immigrants, Adult Literacy, Illiteracy
US Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1949
The biennial survey presents statistics and discussion on broad-range education, state school systems, city school systems, and higher education for 1943-44. Topics include administrative units, enrollment, graduates, teachers, negro schools, school survival rates, educational attainment, funding and expenditures, property and endowments,…
Descriptors: Public Education, Urban Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Abel, J. F. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1923
The rural school project of the continental United States consists in educating over 18 million young people between the ages of 5 and 20 who live in small towns and villages, or in the open country. The 300,000 or more schools classified as rural enrolled nearly 12.5 million pupils in 1920, employed 425,00 teachers, supervisors, and principals,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Resource Allocation, Rural Schools, School Size
United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1909
Since the organization of the United States Bureau of Education in 1867 statistics of public libraries have appeared periodically in the annual reports. It has been the purpose to gather such statistics every five years, but it has not been possible to carry out the plan with perfect regularity. For forty years every annual report of the bureau…
Descriptors: Educational History, Statistical Surveys, National Surveys, Questionnaires