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Berrol, Selma C. – 1989
A case study of the unique City University of New York Bernard Baruch College is presented. The school is unique because for 130 years it charged no tuition to most of its students (and even today is cost-free to many) and because its programs have so closely matched the needs of the city of which it is a part. A description is provided of how the…
Descriptors: College Environment, Educational Change, Educational History, Educational Planning
Peer reviewedRiney, Scott – American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 1998
Examines the history of student recruitment and parental choice among Bureau of Indian Affairs schools, focusing on Rapid City Indian School (South Dakota), 1898-1933. Discusses attitudes of American-Indian parents toward various schools, strategies to keep siblings together, parental influence on schools' competition for students, and the…
Descriptors: Admission (School), American Indian Education, American Indians, Boarding Schools
McBeth, Sally J. – 1983
This book reports on a study of the perceptions of Oklahoma American Indians about their childhood experiences in government and church-sponsored boarding schools. Drawing on symbolic anthropology, the boarding school experience is interpreted to be a complex cultural symbol and symbolic process that contributes to group collectivity and belonging…
Descriptors: Acculturation, American Indian Education, American Indian History, American Indians
National Education Association, Washington, DC. Dept. of Rural Education. – 1947
This booklet is a collection of recommendations from participants in eight regional conferences held in 1946 by the American Institute of Cooperation and the National Education Association. The conferences consisted of small groups of agricultural leaders and educators from every section of the United States, who discussed common problems of rural…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Conservation Education, Educational Attitudes, Elementary Secondary Education
Edmonds, E. L. – 1981
In 1973, there were 56 one- and two-room elementary schools in Prince Edward Island (Canada). As part of a descriptive survey of these schools, now closed by consolidation, researchers visited each school in 1973 and recorded details of the buildings, facilities, and school organizations. Teachers from 47 schools and their 737 students in grades…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Consolidated Schools, Educational Facilities, Elementary Education
Download full textGoodwin, John; O'Connor, Henrietta – 2001
Researchers analyzed 500 never-before-analyzed interviews from a study conducted by Norbert Elias and other researchers at University of Leicester in 1962, which was one of the first studies of the transition from school to work. The Elias study explored how young people in England experienced work and adjusted their lives to the work role. All of…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Employer Employee Relationship, Entry Workers, Expectation
Goodwin, John; O'Connor, Henrietta – 2002
A study performed in 1962 by Norbert Elias on the adjustment of young people to the transition from school to work had five areas of inquiry; adjustment to relationships with older workers and supervisors; adjustment to job problems; adjustment to role as workers; adjustment to role as money-earner in home relations; and adjustment to role as…
Descriptors: Data Interpretation, Education Work Relationship, Entry Workers, Family Role
