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Inclan, Rosa Guas – 1980
This paper was commissioned by the Education Commission of the States to identify and discuss the educational needs of Cuban students in the United States. Historical background is presented in the first section with discussions of the characteristics of Cubans who were educated in Dade County, Florida, in the sixties and seventies and of the…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Cubans, Educational Needs, Elementary Secondary Education
DeVaughn, Booker T. – Lifelong Learning, 1986
Discusses the historical role of adult education in educating Black people and illustrates the strong social justice aspect of Black adult education. This article attempts to add knowledge to the field and provide practitioners with a basis for current program development to meet Black needs. (CT)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Black Education, Blacks, Educational History

Altenbaugh, Richard J. – History of Education Quarterly, 1983
Workers' social and educational experiences during the early twentieth century led to a perceived need for their own schools. Ideological origins of the labor colleges are enumerated, the objectives and programs of one labor college, Brookwood, are examined, and contributions of labor colleges to the American labor movement are analyzed. (RM)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Educational History, Educational Needs, Educational Objectives
Bryant, Ian – 1984
As in England and Wales, there is no unified system for provision of adult education in Scotland. The various levels and types of postschool learning opportunity have emerged from a series of ad hoc arrangements and have been conditioned by local factors reflecting the characteristics of various Scottish religious, economic, legal, political, and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Educational Change, Educational History, Educational Needs
McCallum, Gordon, Ed. – 1991
This book contains five essays that recount the story of Britain's Workers' Educational Association (WEA) in particular and adult education in general in Cornwall since 1919. "An Idea Moves West: The Days before 1919" (Bernard Deacon) discusses the birth of the movement. The problems of chronically high unemployment, low wages, and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Economic Factors, Educational Development, Educational Finance
Johanningmeier, Erwin V., Ed.; Merritt, James, Ed. – 1978
Historical essays examine the characteristics of the education professoriate and its quest for a science of education. The first paper shows how the expansion of public schooling in the early nineteenth century prompted school personnel to look for a science of education in order to improve their practice and schools, and to gain recognition for…
Descriptors: Educational Anthropology, Educational Change, Educational History, Educational Needs
Ryan, Walter A. – 1982
New Hampshire's system of postsecondary vocational-technical education developed toward the end of World War II when it was realized that many of the military personnel soon to be demobilized would need retraining for civilian life. Two trade schools, one in Portsmouth and the other in Manchester, were established in 1945. Today, that system has…
Descriptors: College Programs, Educational Change, Educational History, Educational Needs

US Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1946
This bulletin presents information relating to the national conference on the Office of Education statistical program which took place October 1-3, 1945. The material herein consists of the agenda of the conference, reports of the three study committees on (1) purpose and scope of the statistical program, (2) collection of data, and (3)…
Descriptors: Educational History, Government Role, Agency Role, School Statistics
Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1929
This bulletin contains abstracts of addresses delivered at a 2-day conference of State and county rural-school supervisors of the Northeastern States, called by the United States Commissioner of Education in New York City, New York, April 23 and 24, 1928. Abstracts were prepared from manuscripts submitted by the authors. The conference was the…
Descriptors: Educational Opportunities, Rural Education, Educational Change, School Supervision
Dhanarajan, Gajaraj – 2001
This document reviews the 10-year history of the Commonwealth of Learning (COL), which is an intergovernmental organization that was created by Commonwealth of Nations heads of government to encourage the development and sharing of open learning and distance education knowledge, resources, and technologies. The following are among the topics…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Colleges, Cooperative Planning
Brice, Edward Warner – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1961
Migration has been an essential part of American life and a contributing factor to the urbanization of its cities. The pages of history are filled with the record of the movement of people away from a lesser toward a greater opportunity and the search for security and happiness in some more favorable environment. There are two large groups of…
Descriptors: Migrant Education, Migration, Immigrants, Adult Education

West, Linda L. – 1995
This document traces the history of adult education (AE) in California from the 1850s through the present. Chapter 1 traces AE in California from the 1850s through the 1940s, and chapter 2 summarizes AE governance, finance, and programming in the 1950s. Chapter 3 focuses on the new federal role in AE and AE program growth in the 1960s, with…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Vocational Education, Community Colleges
Survey of Land-Grant Colleges and Universities. Bulletin, 1930, No. 9. Volume II. [Part I - Part VI]
Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1930
The attached document covers the initial sections of the second volume of the Survey of Land-Grant Colleges and Universities, from Part I to Part VI. Part I, Arts and sciences, contains the following chapters: (1) Introduction; (2) Arts and science organization; (3) Specialization; (4) Enrollments and salaries; (5) Articulation with secondary…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Land Grant Universities, Art Education, Science Education
US Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1946
During the early part of the present century it became clear that in our efforts to emphasize general education we were neglecting vocational education. The agitation to correct that defect resulted in the passage of the Smith-Hughes law in 1917 and the development of an effective system of vocational education "of less than college…
Descriptors: Vocational High Schools, Vocational Education, Higher Education, Postsecondary Education