Presents suggestions for ensuring the survival and spread of African American art forms through wide dissemination and use in schools. Emphasizes poetry as one of many aspects of Black creative endeavors. Discusses the effects of the creative fervor of young Black poets of the 1960s on older, more renowned poets. (MK)

This is the fourth volume of the bound periodical, "American Journal of Education" which was established to enter into a range of education-related discussion and investigation. This volume includes issues 10 through 12 September 1857 through March 1858. Articles in this volume cover topics such as: public instruction in Sardinia;…

This chronology outlines 189 key events in the history of business education in the United States from 1635 to 1989, inclusively. Among the types of business education-related developments chronicled are the following: the first time specific types of business courses were offered at specific instructional levels and at specific types of…

This article reviews reasons for official reform of teacher training in Luxembourg. Includes information about past laws, elaborates on aspects of teacher education that need further attention, and concludes with proposals for actions that meet these needs. (AEM)

The history, scope, content, and strategies for English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) instruction in Australia, particularly in adult education, are summarized. The history of ESL instruction is traced from post-war immigration policies, through early provision for migrant education and introduction within postsecondary institutions and adult…

Education in U.S. industry and business is discussed, and the history of business-based education is traced to nineteenth century efforts to meet both the demands of productivity and the training of workers. After discussing the size and scope of efforts to train employees, reasons for corporate training are identified. Four dimensions of the…

This bulletin provides a bibliography of books, articles from periodicals, reports, surveys, proceedings of associations, and investigations and research into present educational conditions received by the library of the Bureau of Education from 1906 to 1922, inclusive. An index following the list is intended to assist teachers, students, and…

Industrial arts is a phase of general education that concerns itself with the materials, processes, and products of manufacture, and with the contribution of those engaged in industry. The learnings come through the pupil's experiences with tools and materials, and through his study of resultant conditions of life. It is a curriculum area rather…

The purpose of this bulletin is to present, for the benefit of school officials and others interested in education, a brief description of the education exhibits at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, held in San Francisco during 1915. Exhibits described herein are almost entirely limited to those that are educational in the narrower…

This is the 1883-1884 report of the Commissioner of Education. It begins with a general statement of the work of the Office, with a list of its publications during the year. Contents include: a summary of institutions, instructors, and students; summary of school age, population, enrolment, attendance; legal school ages in the several States and…

The object of this report is to give an account, in such a form as to allow comparisons, of the instruction in mathematics in the Lower and Middle Commercial and Industrial Schools in the countries reporting to the International Commission on the Teaching of Mathematics. The data of this report have been taken entirely from the reports of the…

This document contains a list of current educational publications received by the Bureau of Education. Books, pamphlets, and periodicals mentioned may ordinarily be obtained from their respective publishers, either directly or through a dealer, or, in the case of an association publication, from the secretary of the issuing organization.…

During the early part of the present century it became clear that in our efforts to emphasize general education we were neglecting vocational education. The agitation to correct that defect resulted in the passage of the Smith-Hughes law in 1917 and the development of an effective system of vocational education "of less than college…

The following pages contain a classified and annotated list of current educational publications for the period July to December, 1930, inclusive. The preceding records for the current year were issued as Bulletin, 1930, No. 15, January to March, 1930, and Bulletin, 1930, No. 32, April to June, 1930. Books, periodicals, and pamphlets here mentioned…

What is presented in this bulletin is the first essay in the history of the Bureau of Education toward a comprehensive index of the annual reports of the Commissioner. It includes authors and subjects with an analysis of the more important articles, for the years 1876 to 1907, inclusive. [Best copy available has been provided.]