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Fox, Florence C. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1921
No part of our school work is more important than that of the first three or four years, which is done in what is generally known as the primary grades. In these grades there are more children than in any other. Many children, for one reason or another, do not go beyond them. Those who do, find all their later school work affected by what they…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Conferences (Gatherings), Child Development, Developmental Stages
Anderson, Howard R.; Cummings, Howard H.; Gaumnitz, Walter H.; Ludington, John R.; Mallory, Berenice; Miller, Leonard M.; O'Toole, Lela; Pearson, James H. – Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1951
"Vitalizing Secondary Education" is a report of the first Commission on Life Adjustment Education for Youth prepared in accordance with the recommendations of the 1947 National Conference in Chicago. It is a summary of some of the Commission's activities in democratizing American secondary education through efforts designed to retain in…
Descriptors: School Holding Power, Secondary Education, State Programs, State Departments of Education
Fowler, Clifford F. – 1981
The report examines and documents the part played by certain local and regional committees in the operation of the Priority Country Area Program (PCAP) in South-West and Central Queensland prior to 1980. Two original studies are described: one concerned with the Local Advisory Committees (LACs) in South-West Priority Country Area and the other…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Community Involvement, Cultural Activities, Educationally Disadvantaged
Taylor, E. H. – United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1915
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…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Mathematics Education, Mathematics Instruction