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Musgrave, Peter W. – 1985
The organization and funding of educational research in Australia since 1970 has been significantly affected by shifts in the control of the federal government from one political party to another and back. No central policy or focus for educational research existed in Australia until 1970, when the conservative government founded the Australian…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Educational Research, Federal Government, Federal Programs
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Zucker, Andrew A. – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 1981
Presents a breakdown of spending from 1971 to 1980 by the U.S. Department of Education (and its predecessor, the Education Division of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare) on educational technology research, development, and demonstrations and on support for purchase of equipment and facilities. A reference list is included.…
Descriptors: Definitions, Educational Technology, Educational Television, Expenditures
Gardner, Marjorie H. – 1977
Beginning with the decade of the 50's, continuing through the 60's and midway into the 70's, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Office of Education, and, most recently, the National Institute of Education have become involved in curriculum development on a national basis. The climate of the 1950's and early 60's witnessed the upgrading and…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Research, Educational History, Educational Trends
Hutchins, Clayton D.; Munse, Albert R.; Booher, Edna D. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1961
For a period of more than 25 years, this series of publications has provided an authoritative and reasonably comprehensive source of information about Federal activities in education. The present bulletin, Federal Funds for Education, 1958-59 and 1959-60, is the 15th in the series. It describes educational programs supported by the Federal…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Federal Government, Federal Aid, Financial Support
Francis, J. H. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1919
The name of the United States School Garden Army was adopted in March, 1918. The work of the organization is an expansion of work undertaken by the Bureau of Education in 1914. The scale upon which it was done was limited by the finances that could be secured for it. The acute demand for food production growing out of the war conditions made…
Descriptors: Educational History, War, Educational Environment, School Activities
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