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Download full textKelley, Russell M.; Smith, Rose Marie – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1933
Reports made to the Office of Education by State departments of education show an enrollment of 21,278,593 children in elementary schools during 1929-30. Between two and three million other children attend private elementary schools. Estimates for the year 1929-30 put the total private elementary school enrollment at 2,255,430. The Department of…
Descriptors: Enrollment Trends, Age Differences, Gender Differences, Instructional Program Divisions
Thorndike, Edward L. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1908
The rapid dwindling of classes in the upper grades of U.S. grammar and high schools has been often noted, and many suggestions as to the improvement of the system of education have been emphasized by reference to this tendency. It is clear that after all that has been done, the attendance of pupils, particularly in the elementary schools, is still…
Descriptors: Attendance Patterns, Academic Persistence, Student Attrition, Elementary School Students
Brown, Kenneth E.; Obourn, Ellsworth S. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1961
The scientist and mathematician of tomorrow will come from the high school students of today. It is important to appraise this source of the future scientific manpower from time to time, both to note the trends and to judge the effectiveness of the efforts being made to bolster the defense, security and future welfare of the Nation through the…
Descriptors: High Schools, Public Schools, Secondary School Mathematics, Secondary School Science
Roemer, Joseph – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1928
The Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools of the Southern States was organized in 1895. Each year a formal report is required of all secondary schools seeking accreditment. At the Charleston, South Carolina, meeting, December, 1925, the association authorized the commission on secondary schools to prepare a detailed statistical report of…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Secondary Schools, Questionnaires, School Size
Caliver, Ambrose – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1933
The Seventy-first Congress authorized a survey of the education of teachers on a Nation-wide scope which has been conducted during the last 3 years. This document on the education of Negro teachers in the United States comprises the fourth in a series of six volumes in which the survey findings are reported. The data in this volume present the…
Descriptors: Tenure, Extracurricular Activities, Teaching Load, African American Education
Caliver, Ambrose – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1936
The present study reveals both positive and negative relationships between a multiplicity of factors and availability of education. The probable effects of many of these factors in various relationships is also discussed. The study was suggested by two other studies on availability of education published in 1930. One was reported in the Thirtieth…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities, Rural Areas, Counties, Educational History
