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Gibbons, William C.; Petty, Adrienne; Van Nort, Sydney C. – History Teacher, 2014
In the sixties, student-led protest movements transformed university and college campuses across the United States. The 1969 takeover at the City College of New York had arguably the most far-reaching consequences of all of the protests of this period. As the flagship campus of the City University of New York system, City College had a well-known…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Urban Universities, Social Action, Reputation
Fox, Florence C. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1932
The Department of Commerce in its highway safety conference made this pronouncement: "The problem of safety is closely linked with health, thrift, and many other elements which taken together make up the great problem of developing a finer citizenship. Educational leaders of the country are now endeavoring to weld together the essential elements…
Descriptors: Educational History, Curriculum Development, Safety Education, Traffic Safety
Mahoney, John J.; Wetmore, Frances K.; Winker, Helen; Alsberg, Elsa – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1920
In the work of Americanization, which is, in the broad sense almost entirely educational, the teacher is of first importance. Not every person who can do good work as a teacher of a grade or of particular subjects in a school for children or youth can do equally good work as a teacher of classes of adult foreign-born persons. The preparation for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Immigrants, Teacher Education Programs