On Monday, September 17, 1787, 39 delegates to the Federal Convention in Philadelphia signed the Constitution of the United States, along with Major William Jackson, who had served as the secretary of the Convention. That same day, Jackson received instructions to leave for New York City on Tuesday and carry the document to Congress. All of these…

On July 23, 1787, delegates at the Constitutional Convention established a Committee of Detail to prepare a report and a printed draft of a Constitution "conformable to the proceedings of the convention." Two weeks later, the committee submitted a printed rough draft to the delegates for their consideration. In this first draft, the Preamble began…

This author and subject index covers National Teachers' Association proceedings volumes from 1857 to 1870, as well as National Educational Association proceedings volumes from 1871 to 1897.

This book is the 14th volume of a bound periodical. The "American Journal of Education" was established to enter into a range of education-related discussion and investigation. Among the topics covered in this volume are: proceedings of the National Convention of Teachers in Philadelphia, in August, 1857; proceedings of the National…

On May 14-15, in Washington, a Conference on Education for Highway Engineering and Highway Transport was held. This was attended by about 75 highway engineers, deans and supervisors of engineering in colleges, universities, and technical schools, National, State, and County highway commissioners, and men interested in highway and automotive…

Among the papers read in the conference on education of the Second Pan-American Scientific Congress, held in Washington December 27, 1915, to January 8, 1916, two contain much of interest and value to those who are responsible for the organization of secondary schools: (1) The Changes Needed in American Secondary Education (Charles W. Eliot), plus…

The study which forms the basis of this bulletin is an outgrowth of a conference held by the Office of Education in Washington, D.C., May 20 and 21, 1957. It reports the findings of a survey made to determine the extent to which certain practices relating to faculty or instructional techniques are being followed in institutions of higher education…

Volume 1 begins with the Commissioner of Education's introduction. Chapters include: (1) the work of the Bureau of Education; (2) a list of the writings of William Torrey Harris; (3) education in Great Britain and Ireland for the year 1906-1907; (4) education in France; (5) education in Central Europe; (6) Educational Activity in Foochow, China;…

The Second National Conference on Education in February was held under the auspices of the School of Forestry of Yale University at New Haven, Connecticut on December 17 and 18, 1920. Its purpose was to discuss the question: To what extent and in what ways is it desirable to revise the standardized curriculum of instruction in forestry that for…

This bulletin contains a report on the activities, work and service of libraries within the United States during the years 1916 to 1918. Contents include: (1) The libraries and the war; (2) War service of the American Library Association; (3) American Library Association conference, 1918; (4) The libraries and reconstruction; (5) Rural library…

The gap between the supply of creatively and intellectually able individuals in America and the demand for the services of highly talented people is constantly widening. Key to the development of provisions for gifted and talented children and youth at the State level will be State department of education personnel directly concerned with such…

This bulletin comprises a symposium on Home and Family Life in a Changing Civilization by William John Cooper, United States Commissioner of Education; Karlee E. Lib, professor of commerce, University of Iowa; Arthur J. Todd, professor of sociology, North-Wester University; and William H. Lancelot, head, vocational education department, Iowa State…

The Commissioner of Education authorized the specialist in charge of commercial education of the Bureau of Education to confer with a small group of administrative professors in engineering and commerce for the purpose of discussing ways and means whereby a larger number of students in engineering and commerce might be prepared better for…

Any history of pharmaceutical education during the two years 1918 to 1920 would be wholly incomplete without a review of the influences, which have brought about the conditions during the period under consideration. In pharmacy, as in medicine and law, the preceptorial system largely prevailed for the first century of pharmacy in the United…

This bulletin reports the findings of a conference of school officials called by the U.S. Commissioner of Education, Dr. J. W. Studebaker, in the Office of Education, June 17, 18, and 19, 1935. Attending this conference, and contributing to the sections of this bulletin were: Howard A. Dawson, J. Cayce Morrison, Edgar L. Morphet, D. H. Sutton,…