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Download full textEgbert, Robert L. – 1981
After an overview of the political history of Project Follow Through, this paper offers (1) an analytical history of the program, with special attention being given to the first years; (2) a description of model development and implementation; (3) an analysis of the role of longitudinal research in Follow Through; (4) a discussion of external…
Descriptors: Demography, Early Childhood Education, Economic Factors, Educational History
Walker, Thomas D. – 1996
This paper documents the "inspection visit" program which existed at the University of Illinois library school between 1895 and 1948 whereby library school students would take extended "field trips" to nearby or even distant libraries. Topics include issues concerned with the visits themselves, their role in the library school…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Experiential Learning, Field Experience Programs, Field Instruction
Schiffer, Judith – 1980
This book offers the premise that staff development plans are often based on politically naive assumptions about authority prerogatives. Three sources of authority: the public trust, the bureaucracy, and colleagues, are traced from colonial times through the progressive era. An analysis is given of the forces that have had an impact on educational…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Decision Making, Educational History, Educational Policy
Martens, Elise H.; Russ, Helen – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1932
There is at the present time a strong movement to include in the school curriculum more preparation for character education. The schools have long recognized their obligations in this respect, but more progress has not been made because they did not know how to bring it about. With the coming of trained psychologists, psychiatrists, and other…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Values Education, Psychologists, Student Behavior
Azab, Saleh Ahmed – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Education, 1985
The educational history of adult literacy education programs in Iraq is discussed. Specifically examined are planning efforts; administration and organization; curricula and instructional materials; human, technical and material resources; program exemptions, drop-outs, and failure; post-literacy programs; and social and economic results. (RM)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Comparative Education, Curriculum
Brice, Edward Warner – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1961
Migration has been an essential part of American life and a contributing factor to the urbanization of its cities. The pages of history are filled with the record of the movement of people away from a lesser toward a greater opportunity and the search for security and happiness in some more favorable environment. There are two large groups of…
Descriptors: Migrant Education, Migration, Immigrants, Adult Education
