Various genres of writing, such as corporate annual reports, do not evolve fully adapted to the purpose for which they were created. A historical review of use to professionals and students shows that annual reports have gradually developed from modest beginnings to become elaborate, slick, and purposeful documents, bending in time to economic…

This bulletin presents a list of publications of the United States Bureau of Education for the years 1867 to 1907, prepared under the direction of the present librarian of the Bureau. This list is intended to make the publications of the Bureau better known and to facilitate their use. It should be of service to librarians and to students of…

This bulletin describes the publications of the Bureau of Education which at the time of its compilation (October 1911) are available for free distribution by this office. Requests for titles from this list will be filed as long as the publications desired continue to be in stock, but it should be understood that the supply of many especially…

This annual report of Oglala Lakota College (South Dakota) profiles staff members and highlights brief family histories of students and staff. Staff profiles include educational background, duties, and interests. Ancestors of interest include: (1) the college president's great-grandfather, Short Bull, who fought at the battle of the Little Big…

This report presents information regarding the staff, students, degrees conferred, income, expenditures, endowment, and physical plant facilities of the land-grant colleges and universities, for the academic year 1950-51. The facts are presented both for the individual institutions, and for the Nation as a whole. The present report, required by…

The history and accomplishments of the National Education Goals Panel (NEGP) are traced from the Education Summit in Charlottesville (Virginia) in 1989 when President Bush and 50 state governors agreed to set education goals for the nation. The goals were announced in February 1990, and the NEGP was formed in July 1990 to issue annual reports on…

This annual bulletin, formerly prepared and published by the National Association of State Universities, has been published by the Bureau of Education for the past six years. The data, given are taken from reports received from the offices of the presidents of the various institutions, and the figures printed are substantially as given in those…

This brief report on the topic of the public education of adults indicates that progress has been made in the field of child development and parent education; that this field has been stimulated by large appropriations from private and public sources; that public agencies are taking over more and more of the responsibility for parent education;…

This summary brings together data from the various statistical chapters of the Biennial Survey of Education 1932-34. Each of these chapters deals with one field of education and has been published separately as part of Bulletin, 1935, No. 2, as follows: Chapter II. Statistics of State School Systems, 1933-34; Chapter III. Statistics of City School…

The sections of this report deal with various divisions of the problem of recording and reporting school data. A considerable number of forms representative of good practice have been included in this report. The material in this report should be looked upon by local school systems as the starting point in the development or revision of a system…

At the time of this writing, little was being done in the area of educating mentally and emotionally handicapped children in the United States. The author details this problem, reports on what is currently being done, and offers solutions and recommendations on further combating the issue. Contents include: (1) The problem. (2) State provisions…

For the school year 1923-24 reports were received from 913 universities, colleges, and professional schools. Of this number 144 are under public control and 769 under private control; 150 are independent professional schools. There are 165 schools of theology, 124 schools of law, 80 schools of medicine, 43 schools of dentistry, 63 schools of…

Developments in adult education during the past few years have attracted general public interest. Reports, based upon scientific studies, that the ability to learn efficiently continues until late in life, were given widespread dissemination. The significance of this fact for education was readily comprehended not only by schoolmen but by the lay…

The Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education's biennial report is presented. The first chapter summarizes the progress and prospects of Oklahoma higher education both for historical documentation and to provide useful and informative data for the 1980 Oklahoma Legislature, the Governor, state systems institutions, and others in the state…

This bulletin, presenting a statistical summary of education during the 1935-36 academic year, represents the first chapter of Volume II of the various statistical studies made during the biennium 1934-36 and published separately as advance pages of the "Biennial Survey of Education." Approximately 276,500 schools are included in the…