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Teachers Magazine, 1914
This document contains issues of "Teachers Magazine" from September 1913 to June 1914, published monthly, except July and August. Issues typically include sections with music, plays, songs, poems, and games; a calendar for the month; monthly plans; and sections on picture study; current-events classroom talks; grade work; hygiene; home…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Music, Drama, Singing
Teachers Magazine, 1913
This document contains issues of "Teachers Magazine" from September 1912 to June 1913, published monthly, except July and August. Issues typically include sections with music, plays, songs, poems, and games; a calendar for the month; monthly plans; and sections on picture study; current-events classroom talks; grade work; hygiene; home…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Educational History, Music, Drama
Fogarty, M. – 1983
The monograph reports on research from primary sources about Queensland's Itinerant Teacher Service from 1901 to 1930. Chapter One traces its history and shows that the Service was inaugurated in 1901 with 1 teacher visiting 103 homesteads having 319 children, reached its peak in 1921 with 18 teachers visiting 1,889 children, and declined until…
Descriptors: Educational History, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Home Instruction

Rust, Val D.; Reed, Frances – Educational Horizons, 1979
Viewing the growing disenchantment with state-controlled schooling, the authors predict that home teaching will become an established educational alternative within a short time, and they reflect on the teachings and writings of Johann Friedrich Herbart, an eighteenth-century advocate of educating children at home. (Editor/SJL)
Descriptors: Compulsory Education, Educational History, Educational Philosophy, Educational Trends

Lepik, Aira – International Information and Library Review, 1995
Examines reading habits of Estonians with studies dating back to the 1960s and discusses the impact of the printed word on culture. Focuses on changes since the Estonian's transition to the market economy: (1) reading has become casual and less frequent; (2) literary preferences have shifted; and (3) smaller home libraries have increased the need…
Descriptors: Economic Impact, Economic Progress, Ethnic Studies, Foreign Countries
Herlihy, Lester B.; Deffenbaugh, Walter S.; Covert, Timon – US Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1941
This bulletin presents the statistics of city school systems in 1937-38. The four population groups in this report are as follows: Group I contains 90 cities each having a population of at least 100,000 and each of which constitutes a school administrative unit. Group II contains 212 cities having a population of not less than 30,000 or more than…
Descriptors: Educational History, School Statistics, Statistical Surveys, National Surveys