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Nyi, Nyi – 1983
The four sections of this paper outline changes in UNICEF programs from their inception in 1946 to recent initiatives circa 1983. The first section delineates shifts in program emphasis, showing how the organization's focus has moved from meeting the emergency needs of post-World War II European children toward addressing the long-term needs of…
Descriptors: Child Development, Developing Nations, Health Programs, History

Milner, Joseph O. – Clearing House, 1997
Describes the three-year development of the Standards Project for English Language Arts. Discusses the context-centered framework, "bad news" from the Department of Education, funding from the National Council of Teachers of English and the International Reading Association, working with a more linear structure, and uncertainties in the…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Educational Principles, Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction
Mayer, Victor J.; Fortner, Rosanne W. – 1987
In 1975, the Columbus Council of the Navy League of the United States provided a grant to The Ohio State University in support of a state survey to determine the level of understanding of marine information among the public school children of Ohio. In addition, it supported a summer workshop in the Humanities of the Seas conducted for teachers in…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Marine Education, Program Content, Program Descriptions

Altenbaugh, Richard J. – History of Education Quarterly, 1983
Workers' social and educational experiences during the early twentieth century led to a perceived need for their own schools. Ideological origins of the labor colleges are enumerated, the objectives and programs of one labor college, Brookwood, are examined, and contributions of labor colleges to the American labor movement are analyzed. (RM)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Educational History, Educational Needs, Educational Objectives
Wayne State Univ., Detroit, MI. Coll. of Education. – 1998
Instructional Technology (IT), as a discipline, is young and still evolving. However, an IT program that reaches the age of 50 is considered by most to be old. The IT program at Wayne State University (Detroit, Michigan) has achieved this status. Its history reflects not only the history of the University and the College of Education, but even…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Course Content, Educational Development, Educational History
Greene, Lynda C. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1996
Since 1988, the Jose Valdes Summer Math Institutes have helped some 4,800 (mostly minority) students get a running start on their high school careers. The program consists of four main elements: intensive math instruction for students, training for teachers, parent education, and a student support program. (MLH)
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, High Schools, Institutes (Training Programs), Mathematics Education
Jackson, Henry E. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1918
To make more valuable to the people those things from which the people are accustomed to derive value has been appropriately been said to be the prime business of legislators. That the schoolhouse, whose value to the people is already great, may become still more valuable to them, is the purpose of the community-organization movement which the…
Descriptors: Community Organizations, Community Centers, Program Descriptions, Program Development
Cummings, Milton C.; Allen, Muriel M.; Hess, Karl – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1961
The Office of Education is requested frequently to supply information about education and community organization for aging. This publication adds to the literature in the growing field of professional and community concern. The publication may have its major use as a handbook for community and school leaders who wish specific information about…
Descriptors: Educational History, Older Adults, Lifelong Learning, Adult Education
Horton, Aimee Isgrig – 1989
This book reviews the history of the Highlander Folk School (Summerfield, Tennessee) and describes school programs that were developed to support Black and White southerners involved in social change. The Highlander Folk School was a small, residential adult education institution founded in 1932. The first section of the book provides background…
Descriptors: Activism, Adult Education, Blacks, Change Agents
Browne, Hetty S. – United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1913
About 79 per cent of the rural schools in the Southern States have only one teacher. It is evident, therefore, that a plan must be worked out which will enable this single teacher to make her school a factor in the development of the life around it. On November 2, 1910, the Peabody Board appropriated $600 to work out such a plan. It was finally…
Descriptors: Educational History, Rural Schools, Rural Education, Relevance (Education)
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
Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1959
This bulletin outlines the programs submitted by 50 States and Territories for the second year of the Library Services Act. These programs reflect the planning and development which has been taking place across the Nation in the extension and improvement of public library service in rural areas. In the first year, fiscal 1957 (July 1, 1956,…
Descriptors: Educational History, Federal Legislation, State Legislation, Program Descriptions

US Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1946
This bulletin presents information relating to the national conference on the Office of Education statistical program which took place October 1-3, 1945. The material herein consists of the agenda of the conference, reports of the three study committees on (1) purpose and scope of the statistical program, (2) collection of data, and (3)…
Descriptors: Educational History, Government Role, Agency Role, School Statistics
Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1958
Never before has a fully informed citizenry been more important to the present and future well-being of the Nation than it is today. And yet, recent investigations have shown that 27 million of our children and adults live in areas without any public library service, and 53 million more have only inadequate book and information services available…
Descriptors: Educational History, Budgets, Bibliographies, Educational Facilities
Moore, Fred; Studebaker, John W. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1940
This bulletin brings to its readers a discussion presented with a view to focusing attention upon this very important educational field of school health work. In Part I, Commissioner Studebaker discusses General Administrative Policies, including the relation of health education to public administration. Sections appearing in Part I include: (1)…
Descriptors: Educational History, School Health Services, Health Education, Educational Policy
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