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Download full textDeffenbaugh, W. S. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1918
After deducting holidays, the annual school term in most American cities is not more than 180 days. In many cities and towns the number of actual school days is still less. This means that children who are never absent attend school less than half the days of the year, a little more than 1 hour in 10. Formerly the school year was much longer in…
Descriptors: Summer Schools, Urban Schools, School Schedules, Summer Programs
Deffenbaugh, W. S.; Muerman, J. C. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1920
In the United States there are more than ten thousand villages and towns having a population of less than 2,500. These are usually not included in the discussion of rural schools and rural school problems, nor in plans for rural school improvement. Nor are they generally included in plans for the improvement of city schools. Yet these villages…
Descriptors: Rural Education, Rural Schools, Supervision, Governance
Deffenbaugh, W. S. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1938
During the period when the economic depression was most serious having the effect upon schools, the Office of Education presented relevant data in a number of different publications. This chapter of the Biennial Survey of Education reviews the most significant findings in those publications and draws them together as a permanent report of some of…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Educational Change, Economic Impact, Educational Assessment
Deffenbaugh, W. S. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1915
A request was made to prepare a bulletin setting forth as clearly as possible the duties and responsibilities of school boards of small cities and towns, their methods of work, and such other matters as would be helpful to such boards in the successful performance of their important duties. In response to this request, the study presented in this…
Descriptors: Enrollment, Educational Administration, School Administration, Boards of Education
Deffenbaugh, W. S. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1929
So extensive and so complex has the modern city school system become that it is impossible in a short chapter to discuss more than a few of the educational movements in the cities of the country, and these only briefly. In addition to day elementary and secondary schools, the activities of city school systems include night schools, continuation…
Descriptors: Safety Education, Articulation (Education), Secondary Schools, Vocational Schools
Van Sickle, J. H.; Whyte, John; Deffenbaugh, W. S. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1919
This bulletin discusses public education in the cities of the United States. Part I, Larger Cities, includes the following sections: (1) Introductory; (2) Americanization; (3) Elimination of German and the teaching of foreign languages; (4) Junior high schools; (5) Vocational education; (6) The Gary School; (7) Military training in the schools;…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, School Administration, Vocational Education
