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Military Child Care: Extensive, Diverse, and Growing. Report to Congressional Requesters.

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General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1989

Due to concerns about the impact of a shortage of child care on productivity, morale, attendance, and family life of members of the uniformed services, the General Accounting Office was asked to conduct a review to determine why and how the Department of Defense (DOD) provides child care, what child care services are available, how many children…

Descriptors: Armed Forces, Day Care, Early Childhood Education, Family Day Care

Engineering, Science, and Management: War Training. Final Report. Bulletin, 1946, No. 9

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Armsby, Henry H. – US Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1946

More than 1.5 million men and women received special training during the period from October 9, 1940 to June 30, 1945 in short, intensive college-level courses designed to prepare for technical and scientific work in war industries. These courses were conducted by colleges and universities under the sponsorship of the U. S. Office of Education.…

Descriptors: Armed Forces, Engineering Education, Institutional Autonomy, Engineering

Proposals to Establish a New Educational Assistance Program for Veterans and Members of the Armed Forces, and Review of the Veterans Educational Assistance Program (VEAP). Hearing before the Subcommittee on Education, Training and Employment of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. House of Representatives, Ninety-Eighth Congress, First Session.

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Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Veterans' Affairs. – 1983

This report of a hearing on educational benefits for veterans and members of the armed forces focuses on four proposals to establish a new educational assistance program for veterans and members of the armed forces and presents a review of the Veterans Educational Assistance Program (VEAP). Testimony includes statements from members of the U.S.…

Descriptors: Adult Education, Armed Forces, Educational Legislation, Federal Aid

The U.S. Army's Impact on the History of Distance Education

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Duncan, Steve – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2005

One of the most significant events that heralded the Department of Defense's commitment to distance education was the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative, which held its kickoff meeting in Washington, DC in 1997. This meeting provided the army and other military services the endorsement that had been lacking relative to implementing…

Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Costs, Instructional Development, Educational Innovation