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Download full textSchofield, Louise – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1917
According to a recent estimate, out of more than four million children between 4 and 6 years of age, less than half a million are enrolled in kindergartens. This condition may be attributed in general to a lack of knowledge of the practical, ethical, and social value of kindergarten education; to the expense of installing a system whose advantages…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Public Education, State Legislation, Educational Legislation
Keesecker, Ward W. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1934
Over the period of 40 years public sentiment in this country in favor of provisions for the comfort and security of aged groups has had a steady growth. The sentiment in favor of provisions for the retirement of public-school teachers is now so general that it is often felt unnecessary to include any consideration of the social and economic…
Descriptors: Teacher Retirement, Program Development, Program Implementation, Educational Finance
New Brunswick Dept. of Education, Fredericton (Canada). – 1989
This paper traces the development of adult vocational education in New Brunswick from its beginning in 1918 to the present. Highlights summarize the adult vocational history before confederation and to World War I, when the first Vocational Education Act was passed in 1918. The paper then summarizes the events of World War I and the Depression…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Adult Vocational Education, Educational Change, Educational History
Eckelberry, R. H. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1932
The present study is an attempt to bring together and to interpret the more important facts concerning the origin and development of the municipal university in the United States. It is obvious that in a work in which the history of a university must be presented in a chapter instead of a volume, and in which the discussion of the subject as a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Urban Universities, Educational Trends
Walker, Mary Margaret – 2000
This document examines the operation of the National Occupational Information Coordinating Committee/State Occupational Information Coordinating Committee (NOICC/SOICC) network in 1976-2000. Presented first is an overview of the NOICC/SOICC network that begins by explaining the NOICC's relationship with the SOICCs in activities related to job…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Agency Cooperation, Career Education, Cooperative Planning
PDF pending restorationWest, Linda L. – 1995
This document traces the history of adult education (AE) in California from the 1850s through the present. Chapter 1 traces AE in California from the 1850s through the 1940s, and chapter 2 summarizes AE governance, finance, and programming in the 1950s. Chapter 3 focuses on the new federal role in AE and AE program growth in the 1960s, with…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Vocational Education, Community Colleges
