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Download full textLyford, Carrie Alberta – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1917
The three brief courses in home making outlined in this bulletin have been especially prepared for use in the elementary rural schools. They are in no sense a complete outline of the subjects with which they deal; rather, they indicate a few of the important phases of food study, sewing, and care of the home with which the girl in the elementary…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Home Economics Education, Home Economics Skills, Home Economics Teachers
PDF pending restorationCalvin, Henrietta W.; Lyford, Carrie A. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1918
For several years the Bureau of Education has been promoting home gardening under the direction of the schools in cities, towns, suburban communities, and industrial villages. The war and the consequent high prices of food have given a great impetus to this movement, and there are now many hundreds of thousands of children cultivating gardens in…
Descriptors: Gardening, Educational History, Educational Policy, Federal Programs
O'Leary, Iris Prouty – United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1915
This bulletin deals with the teaching of cooking for home-making purposes in the day and evening classes of the vocational school. Throughout the bulletin "vocational school" will be used as a term which includes both industrial schools and household-arts schools. Vocational schools include all agricultural, industrial, commercial, and…
Descriptors: Females, Evening Programs, Vocational Schools, Cooking Instruction
Fox, Florence C. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1922
How shall a project be organized so that the subjects in the school program shall properly function and shall contribute to the effective working out of the central idea around which the project must concentrate? How shall an untrained teacher be able to formulate her subject matter in terms of projects unless she understands the function of each…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, School Activities, Teaching Methods, Learning Activities
Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1886
The Commissioner of Education presents facts relating to State reports, recess or no recess, school legislation; statistics of correspondents of the Bureau; growth of education in the United States; school ages, summary of statistics of State systems; summary of the statistics of the last ten years; school population, enrollment, and average…
Descriptors: Recess Breaks, State Legislation, Educational Demand, School Statistics
Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1880
In this report, the Commissioner of Education presents a general review of the U.S. educational condition, discusses the work of the Commissioner's office, and offers summaries of education statistics, using diagrams. Also provided are a summary of educational condition in the states and territories and comparative statistics and remarks on…
Descriptors: Public Agencies, School Statistics, Communicable Diseases, Whites
