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Download full textFrost, Norman – United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1915
Information concerning educational conditions in the southern Appalachian region is scattered, fragmentary, and often partisan to the assumption either that conditions are ideal or that they are inconceivably bad. The purpose of this study is to draw together the available facts in the case. Necessarily, this study is largely statistical. The…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Topography, Counties, Geographic Regions
Cook, Katherine M.; Monahan, A. C. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1917
The demand for efficiency in the schools and for the best possible use of money expended for schools and of the time of the children in school has given rise to a demand for expert supervision by men and women competent to give to all teachers, and especially to young and inexperienced teachers, help in those phases of their work in which they…
Descriptors: Superintendents, School Supervision, Rural Schools, State Government
Brunner, Henry S. – 1966
Laws and rulings affecting resident instruction in the land-grant colleges and universities are described. The land grant college or university is recognized and designated by the legislature of the state as being qualified to fulfill the provisions and to receive the benefits of either or both the First Morrill Act of 1862 or the Second Morrill…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Educational History, Federal Aid, Federal Legislation
Elam, Stanley, Ed. – 1989
This volume reports the major findings and tabulated statistics of the Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup Polls of the Public's Attitudes toward the Public Schools for a 20-year period, beginning with the first poll in 1969 and ending with the 1988 poll. Each of the Gallup Organization's 20 annual reports is the basis of a chapter in the book, and each…
Descriptors: Demography, Educational Attitudes, Educational Development, Educational History
Monahan, A. C. – United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1915
The trend of educational development is toward the State board of education as the administrative head of the educational system. In 37 of the 48 States in the United States there are State boards of education with functions relative to the public schools; in one other, Minnesota, there is a State board with functions relative to the public high…
Descriptors: Educational History, Administrative Organization, Educational Administration, Public Schools
Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1928
Activities in higher education during the biennium 1924-1926 do not seem to have been inspired merely by the desire to pacify criticism of details or to patch up weak spots in the educational fabric. The tendency was to "raise the previous question concerning the functions of colleges and universities and to modify procedures to serve more…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Salary Wage Differentials, Educational Objectives, Surveys
