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Download full textHodges, W. T. – United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1914
Toward the close of the school year 1912-13 the United States Commissioner of Education sent a letter to all school superintendents who have rural schools under their supervision, asking them to report to the Bureau of Education anything of unusual or special value that had been done in the schools during the past year or two. These…
Descriptors: Rural Education, Educational Improvement, Superintendents, Educational Change
Caliver, Ambrose – US Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1941
Because of the individual authority of each State for its own educational program, practices and policies differ widely among them in many respects. Yet in the midst of differences there are also common elements of development. The U. S. Office of Education, in presenting this series of monographs, has attempted to point out those common elements,…
Descriptors: School Administration, African American Education, United States History, Educational History
Barrows, Alice – US Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1941
Because of the individual authority of each State for its own educational program, practices and policies differ widely among them in many respects. Yet in the midst of differences there are also common elements of development. The U. S. Office of Education, in presenting this series of monographs, has attempted to point out those common elements,…
Descriptors: Educational History, State Departments of Education, Agency Role, State Policy
Keesecker, Ward W. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1935
Acts by State legislatures affecting schools, colleges, and universities during 1933 and 1934 are reviewed herein. During this biennium the legislature of every State had one or more legislative sessions; all of them except Alabama had regular sessions. In approximately three-fourths of the States special sessions of the legislature were called.…
Descriptors: Educational History, National Surveys, Educational Trends, Public Education
