The training, the tenure, and the professional status of teachers and other professional workers in the rural schools of America are to a large degree circumscribed by the rewards offered, both financial and social. It has long been recognized in a general way that such rewards in rural schools are meager in comparison with those in urban schools…

By the Federal Land Grant Act of July 2, 1862, each State received a grant of land for the purpose of endowing at least one college of agriculture and mechanic arts. The second Morrill Act of 1890 provided for an annual appropriation to each State which was increased by the Nelson amendment of 1907. Since 1911 each State has received $50,000…

The Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools of the Southern States was organized in 1895. Each year a formal report is required of all secondary schools seeking accreditment. At the Charleston, South Carolina, meeting, December, 1925, the association authorized the commission on secondary schools to prepare a detailed statistical report of…

The General Education Board has, since its foundation in 1902, to July 1, 1921, appropriated $88,125,444.56 for various phases of educational work, $80,408,344.99 of this having been paid to or set aside for colleges and other institutions for whites, $5,806,205.62 for institutions for Negroes, and $1,910,893.95 for miscellaneous objects. This…

The general assembly of 1921 appointed a commission for the survey of educational conditions at the University of Arkansas, and made an appropriation therefor. The report of that survey was of intense interest, but lacked practical effectiveness, because there was not at the same time a comprehensive statement of conditions in the whole public…

This is the fourth part of a 5-part survey of land-grant college education. Other parts are: (1) History and Educational Objectives of Land-Grant College Education; (2) The Liberal Arts and Sciences and Miscellaneous Subjects in Land-Grant Colleges (3) Agricultural Education in Land-Grant Colleges (including agricultural engineering)(4); and Home…

The Bureau of Education developed this course of study, published as a bulletin, reflecting increased interest of the movement for out-door education and in response to a request to the Bureau from the General Federation of Women's Clubs. It will be of value in promoting a type of study much needed in schools, and it will offer to the primary and…

The Congressionally-mandated Head Start Impact Study is being conducted across 84 nationally representative grantee/delegate agencies. Approximately 5,000 newly entering 3- and 4-year-old children applying for Head Start were randomly assigned to either a Head Start group that had access to Head Start program services or to a non-Head Start group…

This bulletin lists 1,910 publications related to the topic of Child Study. A Subject Index is included. [Compiled by Clark University Library, Worcester, Massachusetts. Best copy available has been provided.]

The Conference for Education in the South, which for 16 years has held its annual sessions at different places in the Southern States, is unique among educational conferences, in that its membership does not consist chiefly of teachers and school officers, but of farmers, professional men of all kinds, business men, and women of varied interests,…

Among the many factors in the recent development of secondary schools in the United States the following appear to be of special significance and for that reason have been selected for treatment in this article: (1) The numbers of schools and pupils; (2) the reorganization movement which presents the junior high school as its outstanding…

This bulletin describes practices in one- and two-teacher schools that are helping rural boys and girls get a good education. It contains suggestions for improving the programs of schools that do not meet the needs of boys and girls in the country today. In the school year 1947-48, there were approximately 75,000 one-teacher schools and 18,000…

The Seventy-first Congress authorized a survey of the education of teachers on a Nation-wide scope which has been conducted during the last 3 years. This document on the education of Negro teachers in the United States comprises the fourth in a series of six volumes in which the survey findings are reported. The data in this volume present the…

It is the purpose of this survey to call attention to some of the more significant developments that have taken place in higher education between 1930 and 1936. It covers, to a considerable extent, the critical period of the economic depression and includes those years in which recovery and improvement in higher education have begun to be marked.…

The focus of the Forum's eleventh Study Group report is assessing what it will take for the state to respond to the court's findings in the decade-old Leandro lawsuit, a suit that challenged, among other things, the constitutionality of the state's current system of financing schools. The essence of the court's ruling is that: The state, as judged…