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West, Jerry; Diodato, Louis; Sandberg, Nancy – National Center for Education Statistics, 1984
The educational system is a reflection of the society in which it functions. Curriculum and Instructional philosophies are tied to public concerns and problems. For example, concern over technological superiority was expressed in the mathematics and science curricula of the late fifties and early sixties, and concern for the education of the whole…
Descriptors: High Schools, Enrollment, Educational Trends, Courses
Viles, N. E. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1957
This bulletin is designed as an outline to direct the attention of local officials to various features and steps meriting attention in planning and carrying out a school-plant construction program. Planning, administration, and construction practices and procedures may vary with buildings of different sizes or types of construction or with those…
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Trends, School Buildings, School Construction
Jessen, Carl A. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1938
Periodically since 1890 the Office of Education has attempted to catch and keep a sort of survey picture of the developing secondary school curriculum. Each one shows the school's answer to the question of what is good--educationally--for boys and girls. Each one shows, too, through registration figures for electives, what boys and girls think is…
Descriptors: Educational History, Secondary School Curriculum, High Schools, Junior High Schools