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Berke, Joel S.; Moore, Mary T. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1982
Traces the history of federal goals and policies in education from the expansion of federal aid under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to the reduction of federal support and regulation currently envisaged in the Education Improvement and Consolidation Act of 1981. (RW)
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Aid, Federal Programs
Download full textLittle, J. Kenneth – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1962
This report, developed pursuant to Title X, Section 1001 (d), of the National Defense Education Act of 1958, is organized in three parts. Part I is an account of the nature, scope, and volume of federally sponsored programs in colleges and universities of the United States and the institutions which participate in them. This description is…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Federal Programs, Program Descriptions, Educational Change
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
Kelly, Gail P.; Seller, Maxine S. – 1985
In 1984, the New York State Regents issued an action plan calling for changes in curriculum, high school graduation requirements, and educational standards. Histories of school reform indicate, however, that state legislation alone cannot successfully or permanently improve educational practice. This essay therefore surveys the history of federal…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational Economics, Educational History
Thompson, Frank V. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1919
The influence of industrial vocational education is having its effect upon practices and methods of commercial education. The practice of industrial education of analyzing a curriculum of subjects containing values of vocational work, related vocational, and non-vocational subjects is causing the examination of commercial education with a view to…
Descriptors: Business Education, Secondary Education, School Surveys, Industrial Education
Whitcomb, Emeline S. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1926
Home economics education during the past biennium has made notable progress in a number of directions. These directions include, among others, a clarification of the contributions of home economics to general education, to health education, to child care and welfare, and a reorganization of the curriculum, based on scientific evidence. This latter…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Home Economics Education, Occupational Home Economics
John, Walton C., Ed. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1925
For more than a quarter of a century the United States has witnessed a period remarkable in the variety and the extent of its scientific achievements. This is all the more apparent if individuals compare developments in the fields of agriculture, engineering, and their allied sciences and industries with those of the preceding period. Likewise a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Role, Educational Objectives, Educational History
