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Download full textJackson, Henry E. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1918
To make more valuable to the people those things from which the people are accustomed to derive value has been appropriately been said to be the prime business of legislators. That the schoolhouse, whose value to the people is already great, may become still more valuable to them, is the purpose of the community-organization movement which the…
Descriptors: Community Organizations, Community Centers, Program Descriptions, Program Development
Cummings, Milton C.; Allen, Muriel M.; Hess, Karl – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1961
The Office of Education is requested frequently to supply information about education and community organization for aging. This publication adds to the literature in the growing field of professional and community concern. The publication may have its major use as a handbook for community and school leaders who wish specific information about…
Descriptors: Educational History, Older Adults, Lifelong Learning, Adult Education
Morgan, Charlotte T. – 1981
Various agencies contributed to the education of black adults in Manhattan (New York City) during the period 1880-1930. Most of these programs were centered in Harlem as that area became home to vastly increasing numbers of black people. Organizations which contributed to adult education included the churches with their "lyceums," which…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adults
