This review of applications of educational technology in U.S. military training programs from 1960 to 1980 shows how the use of various audiovisual aids led, in turn, to programed instruction, the systems approach to instructional development, and the development of the Instructional Systems Design (ISD) Model. More than 30 references are listed.…

The education of crippled children must to a large extent be planned in the light of their physical education. Handicapped children need early the type of guidance and instruction that will help them to realize their greatest possibilities physically, mentally, socially, and vocationally. This publication presents some of the problems involved in…

No part of our school work is more important than that of the first three or four years, which is done in what is generally known as the primary grades. In these grades there are more children than in any other. Many children, for one reason or another, do not go beyond them. Those who do, find all their later school work affected by what they…

The book takes a nostalgic look at one-room schools in the United States Midwest, especially in Illinois, and traces their history from about 1825 to the present. Three chapters present the development of the one-room school from 1825 to the Civil War, from after the Civil War to around 1920, and from 1920 through the Depression and the Second…

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…

This report contains statistics of public high schools for the school year 1925-26. The principal items included are these: Number of schools; administrators; supervisors; teachers; pupils; graduates; enrollments in teacher-training courses; number taking military drill; size of libraries; value of grounds, buildings, and contents; and…

In the last 8 or 10 years there has been unusual progress in the establishment of kindergartens in most of the cities and States, but still the kindergarten is a phase of school work less known than the work of the grades in the elementary schools. Many school officers and school architects lack information as to the character of rooms and…

In preparing this bulletin the writer has addressed himself to some of the more important questions with which school boards and architects have to deal when they enter upon the work of planning a school building. It is not a treatise on school hygiene, but a discussion of the requirements of school buildings from the schoolman's point of view…

This handbook is a guide to accounting for school activity funds. It is designed for use by individual schools and school systems throughout the United States. The project was undertaken to meet the increasing concern of State and local school officials and the general public for safe ands economical handling of school activity money which amounts…

This bulletin updates the original annotated bibliography, published in 1958, entitled "State Curriculum Guides for Industrial Arts," and represent current State instruction material for industrial arts. Only guides bearing a publishing date from 1951-61 are included, as identified by State supervisors of industrial arts, consultants, or persons…

Within the past few years there has been a very remarkable increase in public school extension and the wider use of school buildings and equipment. This extension work has taken many forms, all of which, however, are intended to be supplementary to the regular school work. In order that records of this work may be kept and that teachers, school…

This handbook is a guide to property accounting for local and State school systems. It classifies and defines the specific items of information about land, buildings, and equipment that need to be comparable among local school systems and among States, and presents additional terminology essential to their effective use. As such, it is concerned…

In the elementary and secondary schools, there is a movement toward a sequential instructional program which would involve the offering of a laboratory science each year from kindergarten to high school graduation. In some schools teachers have turned to science kits as a partial solution to the problems presented by restricted space, inadequate…

This bulletin is designed as an outline to direct the attention of local officials to various features and steps meriting attention in planning and carrying out a school-plant construction program. Planning, administration, and construction practices and procedures may vary with buildings of different sizes or types of construction or with those…

This report is an account of a survey entitled, "A Project to Survey the Motion Picture Production Facilities of Selected Colleges and Universities in the United States," which was conducted by the University Film Foundation during the Spring and Fall of 1960, under a contract with the U.S. Office of Education. Reasons for the survey included the…