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Download full textBarrows, Alice – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1922
In February, 1922, the United States Commissioner of Education, John J. Tigert, called the First National Conference on the Work-Study-Play, or Platoon. One result of this conference was that the superintendents who attended asked the United States Bureau of Education to serve as a clearing house of information in regard to the work-study-play…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Superintendents, Educational Change, Play
Persons, Stow – 1990
An historical account of the creation and development of the University of Iowa is presented. Organized by presidental administration, this institutional history concentrates on the period when the university established its place among the major U.S. universities, and follows the school's struggle to establish (through three distinct stages) a…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Chronicles, College Presidents, Departments
Browne, Hetty S. – United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1913
About 79 per cent of the rural schools in the Southern States have only one teacher. It is evident, therefore, that a plan must be worked out which will enable this single teacher to make her school a factor in the development of the life around it. On November 2, 1910, the Peabody Board appropriated $600 to work out such a plan. It was finally…
Descriptors: Educational History, Rural Schools, Rural Education, Relevance (Education)
Moore, Fred; Studebaker, John W. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1940
This bulletin brings to its readers a discussion presented with a view to focusing attention upon this very important educational field of school health work. In Part I, Commissioner Studebaker discusses General Administrative Policies, including the relation of health education to public administration. Sections appearing in Part I include: (1)…
Descriptors: Educational History, School Health Services, Health Education, Educational Policy
Nursery Schools: Their Development and Current Practices in the United States. Bulletin, 1932, No. 9
Davis, Mary Dabney – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1933
During the decade 1920-1930 the number of nursery schools reported to the United States Office of Education increased from 3 to 262. This last number does not comprise the total number of nursery schools in the United States, but the increase from 3 to 262 in the number reported indicates their rapid growth. This evident interest in nursery…
Descriptors: Educational History, Nursery Schools, Preschool Education, Educational Trends
Hunt, DeWitt – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1957
It is believed that superintendents and principals, school board members, teachers, and employers and other lay citizens--in fact, all those persons who help to decide on public-school curriculum have need for a bulletin in which information is made available concerning work experience education programs. They should be informed about selected…
Descriptors: Educational History, High School Students, Junior High School Students, Student Employment
