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Download full textAbel, James F. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1930
From time to time during the past 100 years individuals or organizations have suggested, or seriously proposed, the establishment of a Federal department of education. Immediately after the Civil War the early advocates, led by Henry Barnard, almost succeeded in their plan. In 1867 a bill creating a department of education, introduced into the…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Political Divisions (Geographic), Foreign Countries, Education
Abel, James F.; Bond, Norman J. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1929
The main purpose in preparing this bulletin is to assemble so far as practicable and publish in brief form such official statistics as are available on illiteracy in the various countries of the world, to tell where those data may be found, and if possible, to give a general estimate of world-wide illiteracy. Incidental to this purpose, it…
Descriptors: Illiteracy, Political Divisions (Geographic), Global Education, Statistical Data
