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Download full textSchenck, John P.; And Others – 1984
Viktor Karlovich Della-Vos is created as being the director and chief architect of Russian manual training. Born in 1829, Della-Vos received a degree in physical and mathematical sciences from Moscow University in 1853. He began his teaching career in 1854 as a teacher of Russian and eventually began teaching advanced mathematics in 1858. In 1860…
Descriptors: Biographies, Educational History, Foreign Countries, Job Training
US Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1946
The Rural War Production Training Program was inaugurated at the beginning of the war primarily to provide training in elementary skills to farm youth not needed on farms, sufficient to enable them to secure employment in defense industries. Needs changed, however, and the production of food crops throughout the Nation adequate to feed ourselves,…
Descriptors: Agricultural Occupations, Program Administration, Grants, Rural Youth
PDF pending restorationWest, Linda L. – 1995
This document traces the history of adult education (AE) in California from the 1850s through the present. Chapter 1 traces AE in California from the 1850s through the 1940s, and chapter 2 summarizes AE governance, finance, and programming in the 1950s. Chapter 3 focuses on the new federal role in AE and AE program growth in the 1960s, with…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Vocational Education, Community Colleges
