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Ryan, W. Carson, Jr. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1919
The problem of organizing human labor resources has suddenly emerged, like so many other social and economic problems, from the realm of the academic into that of the immediate and practical, largely under the stimulus of war necessity. Through the selective draft act, the Federal employment plan, and specialized training under the War Department,…
Descriptors: Vocational Rehabilitation, Vocational Education, Job Skills, Career Guidance
John, Walton C. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1938
It is the purpose of this survey to call attention to some of the more significant developments that have taken place in higher education between 1930 and 1936. It covers, to a considerable extent, the critical period of the economic depression and includes those years in which recovery and improvement in higher education have begun to be marked.…
Descriptors: School Effectiveness, Higher Education, Educational Development, Economic Impact
Swift, Fletcher Harper – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1923
Every great war in which the United States has played a part has been followed by educational developments of supreme national importance. As the result of the Revolutionary War the Federal Government acquired a vast public land domain from which it has carved generous grants to the States. Those became the foundation of systems of free public…
Descriptors: Educational History, Government Role, Role of Education, Educational Trends
Maphis, Charles G. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1923
This report is not a complete survey of educational extension in the United States. The limitations of time, space, and cost forestall a complete detailed statistical review of the work of the past biennium. A full account in detail would require visits to every Commonwealth, a very large expenditure of time and money, and a report of several…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Extension Education, Popular Education, Educational Development
Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1923
Hampton Institute has developed an educational technique in several lines which is of interest especially to those institutions that are still trying to find their way under difficulties and that for lack of vision as well as lack of support are unable to reach the high ideals of training which have resulted from the careful working out of the…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Administrative Organization, Extension Agents, Vocational Education


