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Cole, Nathaniel H. – 1986
This document examines the chronological history of financing the Alaskan public school system. The first section traces the influence of the Greco-Russian Church and the Russian-American Company on education in Russian Alaska. The second section focuses on early United States education efforts, including the Sheldon Jackson era, the Organic Act…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education, Public Schools
Martens, Elise H. – US Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1941
Because of the individual authority of each State for its own educational program, practices and policies differ widely among them in many respects. Yet in the midst of differences there are also common elements of development. The U. S. Office of Education, in presenting this series of monographs, has attempted to point out those common elements,…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Special Education, School Administration, Residential Institutions
Reason, Paul L., Comp.; Foster, Emery M., Comp.; Will, Robert F. (Comp.) – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1953
This handbook contains the items, with their definitions, which comprise the common core of State educational information that should be available annually in each State department of education. Chapter one contains definitions of terms used in this handbook. These definitions explain general terms and not specific items for the collection of…
Descriptors: Definitions, Information Sources, State Policy, State Programs
Langvick, Mina M. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1931
The purpose of this study is to analyze current practices in the construction of State courses of study. Available State courses of study, reports of survey commissions and educational officials, and other State educational publications have been examined to discover the problems considered significant by State educational officials and the…
Descriptors: Educational History, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Course Content