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Troop, Don – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2009
Tossing mortarboards at commencement is all fun and games until somebody gets her head sliced open. This article describes the harrowing experiences of Trudy Kuehner, a graduating senior at Sterling Regional High School 31 years ago, and another 17-year-old graduate who were both injured by a mortarboard. Such injuries are the exception, though,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduation, Military Schools, Ceremonies
Barnard, Henry, Ed. – American Journal of Education, 1865
This is the 15th volume of a bound periodical, "American Journal of Education." It was established to enter into a range of education-related discussion and investigation. Among the topics covered by articles in this issue are: the American Doctrine of Public Instruction; naval education in the United States; competitive examination for…
Descriptors: Public Education, Military Schools, Admission (School), Tests
Barnard, Henry, Ed. – American Journal of Education, 1873
This document contains Volume Eight of the "National Series" of the "American Journal of Education." This volume for 1873 contains a general index to the principal subjects in history, biography, systems, institutions, principles, and methods of education contained in the previous volumes (I-XXIV). Articles in issues 29-32…
Descriptors: History, Biographies, Schools, Educational Principles
Town, J. Stephen – 1995
This paper defines benchmarking and its relationship to quality management, describes a project which applied the technique in a library context, and explores the relationship between performance measurement and benchmarking. Numerous benchmarking methods contain similar elements: deciding what to benchmark; identifying partners; gathering…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Benchmarking, Cost Effectiveness, Feedback
Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1870
The bulk of this report from the Commissioner of Education is made up of appendices. The appendices begin with abstracts of reports submitted by state, territorial, and city school officers. Data is then presented on the general condition of colored schools operated by the Freedmen's Bureau; Indian education; kindergarten culture; Hebrew…
Descriptors: African American Education, American Indian Education, Kindergarten, Foreign Countries
Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1878
The Commissioner of Education presents an education-progress review, and discusses compulsory education; national education aid; work of the commissioner's office; education statistical summaries; nurse-training schools; states' education duties; results of five years' compulsory education in Great Britain; industrial day schools; the Boston…
Descriptors: Professional Associations, Conferences (Gatherings), Schools of Education, Business Schools
Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1881
The Commissioner of Education reviews the work of the office, and provides discussion and data, with some diagrams on the following topics: six-year summary of institutions, instructors, and students; enrollment and attendance of the school-age population; public school teacher employment and salaries; per-capita expenditures on ungraded schools…
Descriptors: Public Agencies, Schools, Teachers, Students