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Download full textCook, Katherine M. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1921
This study of conditions of the school system of the County of Currituck, with suggestions for its improvement, is made at the request of the county board of education. It Is inspired by the desire of the board to adopt a consistent policy as to buildings, organization, course of study, supervision, and instruction, which provides for present and…
Descriptors: Attendance, School Buildings, Counties, School Supervision
Cook, Katherine M. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1923
Twenty-five States reported to the Bureau of Education that some sort of concerted effort was made during the biennium toward improving and adapting State courses of study to the needs of rural schools. It is reported that progress has been made in the following categories: (1) The tendency on the part of State departments to assume increased…
Descriptors: Educational Opportunities, Agricultural Education, Rural Education, School Buildings
Cook, Katherine M. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1939
Americans are justly proud of the Panama Canal, the first and the most significant of our larger ventures as a Nation in commercial engineering. Two successful means of trans-Isthmian travel are now in operation--one by rail, established with the completion of the Panama Railroad, and one by water with the completion of the Canal. The community is…
Descriptors: Transportation, Public Education, Engineering, Educational History
Cook, Katherine M. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1937
This chapter reviews the educational situation in rural and other sparsely settled areas as well as the major developments in education since 1928 when the Office of Education reviewed trends in rural education for the biennium 1927-28, following a series of similar reviews. It is prepared in conformity to the changed policy of the Office of…
Descriptors: Rural Education, Rural Schools, Educational Development, Educational Environment
