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Download full textGore, Deborah, Ed. – Goldfinch: Iowa History for Young People, 1988
This issue focuses on Iowa's role in the historical development of the 4-H youth program. "Roots in Iowa" and "Jessie Field Shambaugh: The Mother of 4-H" (J. Friedel) describes the rural Iowan roots of the 4-H program, which today is located in 80 different countries, and give the story of its founder. Jessie Shambaugh, a rural…
Descriptors: International Programs, Nonschool Educational Programs, Program Development, Rural Education
Kennedy, Carolyn L.; Nye, Donna L. – Camping Magazine, 1987
Highlights events in the Girl Scout movement's 75-year history, noting parallels between Girl Scout camping and the growth and success of organized camping in the United States. Includes discussion of camping standards development, Lou Henry Hoover's support, adaptations during World War II, special programs and projects, and new facilities. (JHZ)
Descriptors: Camping, Facilities, Females, Leadership
Peer reviewedZahavi, Gerald – Great Plains Quarterly, 1996
Traces the development and decline of communism and radical politics in Sheridan County, Montana, 1918-34. Examines conflicts that split the community into conservative and radical camps (primarily townspeople and farmers, respectively); the school and school board as defenders of conservative morality; intrusions of politics into children's…
Descriptors: Children, Communism, Community Attitudes, Community Relations
Brown, Philip L. – 1981
With the goal of improving citizenship and character education in the elementary school child through learning by doing in the form of a school-based club, the Young Citizens League (YCL) appeared in rural South Dakota early in the twentieth century, introduced by Michael M. Guhin and developed by E.C. Giffen. By 1930, at its peak, it had an…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Educational History, Elementary Education, Group Activities
Tompkins, Ellsworth – Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1951
Within the last decade the activity period has been adopted by an increasing number of high schools, even in those unaffected by bus transportation schedules. These schools believe it is a means for developing desirable civic and social activities for "all" pupils and for applying the "total" resources of school staff and…
Descriptors: Educational History, Public Schools, Extracurricular Activities, School Organization
Brown, Willis C. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1956
One of the outstanding characteristics of American secondary education is the emphasis that it places upon individual and social needs. Most educators endorse student extraclass activities as an important way to obtain program flexibility, meet individual needs, and attain desirable education objectives. Among the purposes of this publication are…
Descriptors: Educational History, Extracurricular Activities, Secondary Education, High School Students
Blauch, Lloyd E. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1933
During the past quarter of a century there have been rather continuous and persistent efforts for Federal aid to education. Twenty-one years ago the Congress of the United States enacted the Smith-Lever Agricultural Extension Act, and 3 years later it passed the Smith-Hughes Vocational Education Act. Under the Smith-Lever Act and subsequent…
Descriptors: Educational History, Federal Government, Federal Legislation, Extension Education
