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Download full textBureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1919
The main objective of this study was to procure reliable information on the education, experience, and general character of the rural teaching force of Nebraska, together with the first-hand knowledge of some of the conditions contributing to the home and school environment of these teachers. This knowledge was obtained by means of a…
Descriptors: Teacher Recruitment, Educational Development, Rural Schools, Teacher Education
Matheison, Clele Lee – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1939
Among the exceptional children for whom special educational facilities are essential are those who must spend weeks or months or years in a hospital or a sanatorium. Many of these children, while undergoing physical treatment, can very profitably engage in school work. Comparatively little has been written about this phase of educational activity,…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Student Characteristics, Teachers, High School Students
Bolton, Frederick E.; Bibb, Thomas W. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1935
This volume of the history of education in Washington is the result of many years of intermittent research by graduate students in education under the direction of the senior author. In five doctorate dissertations and about a dozen masters' theses materials have been assembled on various phases of education. The two most direct contributions were…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Archives, State Colleges, School Expansion
Deffenbaugh, W. S. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1938
During the period when the economic depression was most serious having the effect upon schools, the Office of Education presented relevant data in a number of different publications. This chapter of the Biennial Survey of Education reviews the most significant findings in those publications and draws them together as a permanent report of some of…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Educational Change, Economic Impact, Educational Assessment
Evans, Henry R. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1929
The General Education Board has, since its foundation in 1902, to June 30, 1928, appropriated $176,689,425.54 for the promotion of education in the United States. Of this sum $112,163,437.95 was paid to colleges and other institutions for Whites; $12,991,854.75 to institutions for Negroes; and $1,317.023.91 to miscellaneous objects. This report…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Postsecondary Education, National Surveys
Swift, Fletcher Harper – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1923
Every great war in which the United States has played a part has been followed by educational developments of supreme national importance. As the result of the Revolutionary War the Federal Government acquired a vast public land domain from which it has carved generous grants to the States. Those became the foundation of systems of free public…
Descriptors: Educational History, Government Role, Role of Education, Educational Trends
Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1917
The effective education of the Negroes of the United States is essential to the welfare of the entire Nation, and especially of the Southern States. In view of this fact, the information contained in this bulletin has immediate and practical value of a very high degree. Noteworthy elements in the preparation of this report on Negro education are:…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, African American Education, Educational Facilities, United States History
