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Download full textCurtis, Henry S. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1922
There are many people of middle age in America still who do not believe in play. They grew up without playgrounds themselves and they do not realize how greatly conditions have changed during the intervening years. When the author was a boy in southern Michigan the school session in his country community was only four months a year. Under these…
Descriptors: Youth, Play, Psychomotor Skills, Physical Development
Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1964
The national summer dropout campaign of 1963 was initiated by President Kennedy. Subsequent to a June 19 meeting at the White House of over 250 leading educators, another group of local administrators met with Federal officials to discuss possible actions that might be taken to reduce dropouts. The ensuing campaign began and ended within a span of…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Summer Programs, Community Cooperation, Presidents
