A brief biography is presented of Henry Barnard, one of the leading educators in America during the first half of the 19th century. An early and forceful advocate of free public education, Barnard promulgated his ideas through public service and teaching as well as through writings in "The American Journal of Education," which he edited…

This paper briefly highlights the past four decades of the often contentious relationship between school districts and the environmental movement revealing the difficulties that environmental policy has had on the nation's educational systems. It reveals the public's increasing awareness of environmental factors within the school that jeopardize…

Holds that "improvement" is an important theme for understanding the early history of public schooling in Buffalo. Describes Oliver Steele's strategy for linking public schooling with the concept of "public improvement" and argues that an unfortunate part of Steele's legacy was the idea that a suitable building guaranteed a…

Adequate maintenance of school buildings representing a public investment of billions of dollars is a problem of grave concern to both taxpayers and school officials. This publication, one of a series dealing with school plant management problems, identifies, describes, shows the function of, and outlines maintenance procedures for many components…

As a basis for interpreting scholarly work on the Black school superintendent, the article does the following: (1) outlines African American history; (2) discusses the political context of the struggle for Black education and the importance of the Black superintendency to it; and (3) develops a framework for the future success of Black…

In December, 1921, the Board of Education of Washington, North Carolina requested the United States Commissioner of Education make a survey of the school buildings of Washington, NC with a view to working out a building program for the schools of that city. The author of this bulletin was detailed by the commissioner to make the survey, which she…

Gloucester, Massachusetts, is about 25 to 75 years behind in the school building program. In the meantime social, industrial, and educational conditions have changed greatly, and it is now a serious menace to the welfare of the children of Gloucester and its coming citizenship that modern school facilities are not provided. Moreover, the people of…

The topics discussed in this bulletin are those that are significant of new developments in regard to the school-building problem. For example, although elementary and high school buildings are of equal importance, considerable space is given to the evolution of the elementary school building of the city school systems because it represents a…

This bulletin reports statistics of state universities and other institutions of higher education partially supported by the State. The topics covered in this report include: (1) Changes in courses and methods of instruction; (2) Gifts, buildings, and improvements; (3) The teaching force in State universities and other State-aided institutions of…

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 three 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 bulletin presents a study of the financial and building needs of the public schools of Lexington, Kentucky. The report shows that there is immediate and urgent need for new permanent buildings, temporary or movable buildings, and repairs, at which, at present prices of material and labor, will cost not less than $400,000, and that there will…

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 five 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…

Twenty-five States reported to the Bureau of Education that some sort of concerted effort was made during the biennium toward improving and adapting State courses of study to the needs of rural schools. It is reported that progress has been made in the following categories: (1) The tendency on the part of State departments to assume increased…

Since the publication by the Bureau of Education of Bulletin (1910) No. 5, entitled "American Schoolhouses" much progress has been made in school architecture from every point of view. In this revised edition such changes and such additions have been made in the text as will, it is hoped, bring this progress to the attention of school…

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 four 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…