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Burke, Kenneth M. – Online Submission, 2008
Research briefly details the purpose of the Harry S. Truman administration's Commission on Higher Education for Democracy to support community colleges. Contrary to histories that define later origins in the 1960s, this paper makes an argument that the historical foundations of ideation for international education in community colleges originate…
Descriptors: Higher Education, International Education, Democracy, Community Colleges
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Prentice, Mary – Academic Questions, 2007
Outside work can complement what goes on in the classroom in ways that benefit both the community and students. Of course, AQ readers may have heard of tendentious programs and faculty ideologues, who channel student enthusiasm into partisan activism. Still, statistical survey analysis presented here by Mary Prentice suggests that participation in…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Statistical Surveys, Service Learning, Citizen Participation
Jessen, Carl A. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1931
Among the many factors in the recent development of secondary schools in the United States the following appear to be of special significance and for that reason have been selected for treatment in this article: (1) The numbers of schools and pupils; (2) the reorganization movement which presents the junior high school as its outstanding…
Descriptors: Educational History, Secondary Education, Junior High Schools, High Schools