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Download full textBryant, Louise Stevens – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1921
The Girl Scouts, a national organization, is open to any girl who expresses her desire to join and voluntarily accepts the promise and the laws. The object of the Girl Scouts is to bring to all girls the opportunity for group experience outdoor life, and to learn through work, but more by play, to serve their community. Patterned after the Girl…
Descriptors: Females, Youth Programs, Child Development, Outdoor Education
Jarvis, C. D. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1917
The investigation reported in this bulletin was undertaken for the purpose of making available a volume of evidence on questions concerning the early elimination of children during out-of-school hours. The inquiry was confined to the children of sixth, seventh, and eighth grades. Information concerning the following points has been presented: (1)…
Descriptors: Children, Child Labor, Grade 6, Grade 7
Lyford, Carrie Alberta – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1917
The three brief courses in home making outlined in this bulletin have been especially prepared for use in the elementary rural schools. They are in no sense a complete outline of the subjects with which they deal; rather, they indicate a few of the important phases of food study, sewing, and care of the home with which the girl in the elementary…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Home Economics Education, Home Economics Skills, Home Economics Teachers
Lyford, Carrie Alberta – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1919
This bulletin is a revision of Bureau of Education, Bulletin, 1914, No. 39, Education for the Home, by Dr. Benjamin R. Andrews, with the addition of books published since that date. The bibliography has been made as exhaustive as limitations of time and facilities permit. It is not offered as a suggestive home economics library for schools. Such a…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Child Rearing, Home Economics, Bibliographies
Holt, Marilyn Irvin – 1995
This book focuses on the domestic economy movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which intended to transform agrarian society and improve rural life through the education of rural women. The movement considered women to be partners in business with their farmer husbands and pursued the goal of making rural women more able managers and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Child Health, Child Rearing, Educational History
Loftfield, Gabriel E. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1930
The main purposes of this study are: (1) to assemble and report the facts about secondary education in Norway, and (2) to interpret to some extent the educational philosophy of that country. A minor purpose is to furnish the data that will help place properly in the schools of the United States any young people from Norway who may come here to…
Descriptors: Evening Programs, Admission (School), Cultural Influences, Foreign Countries
