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Download full textCook, Katherine M.; Monahan, A. C. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1917
The demand for efficiency in the schools and for the best possible use of money expended for schools and of the time of the children in school has given rise to a demand for expert supervision by men and women competent to give to all teachers, and especially to young and inexperienced teachers, help in those phases of their work in which they…
Descriptors: Superintendents, School Supervision, Rural Schools, State Government
Cook, Katherine M. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1922
Supervision as understood in well-organized city systems has little resemblance to the annual visitation of schools as practiced by many county or other rural superintendents. The majority of these officers are fully conscious of the limitations imposed upon them by the conditions under which they work and they are active in their efforts to…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Educational Administration, Superintendents, Counties
Monahan, A. C.; Cook, Katherine M. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1917
This bulletin reports the results of a survey and study of the public-school system of Wyoming, with recommendations concerning the legislation needed for its improvement. The work was undertaken by the Bureau of Education as a result of a request for assistance from the State of Wyoming subsequent to the general assembly enacting a law which…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational History, State Surveys, Educational Legislation
Cook, Katherine M. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1921
This study of conditions of the school system of the County of Currituck, with suggestions for its improvement, is made at the request of the county board of education. It Is inspired by the desire of the board to adopt a consistent policy as to buildings, organization, course of study, supervision, and instruction, which provides for present and…
Descriptors: Attendance, School Buildings, Counties, School Supervision
Cook, Katherine M. – 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: School Administration, Teacher Education Programs, School Supervision, State Departments of Education
Cook, Katherine M. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1934
Puerto Rico has for approximately 35 years been a part of the territory and citizenship of the United States. During these years mutual understandings and appreciations have broadened and deepened, and mutual interests have developed. Constantly increasing numbers of the people of Puerto Rico are coming to live on the mainland, and even greater…
Descriptors: Public Education, Educational Practices, Economic Progress, Puerto Ricans
Cook, Katherine M. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1927
This bulletin summarizes issues related to rural education in two parts. Section I, Problems Concerned with Rural School Support, covers: (1) The schools and the economic situation; (2) State aid and equalization of opportunities, including interest in school support and efforts toward improvement, sources and distribution of State school funds,…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Educational Opportunities, Administrative Organization, Curriculum Development
Cook, Katherine M. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1925
The most conspicuous and pertinent tendency in rural education in the biennium is that toward better understanding of and intelligent accomplishment in the direction of more equitable distribution of school opportunities and school expense burdens. Rural education is still the weak spot in the American educational system. The passing of the…
Descriptors: Educational Opportunities, Administrative Organization, Rural Education, Educational Change
Cook, Katherine M. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1937
This chapter reviews the educational situation in rural and other sparsely settled areas as well as the major developments in education since 1928 when the Office of Education reviewed trends in rural education for the biennium 1927-28, following a series of similar reviews. It is prepared in conformity to the changed policy of the Office of…
Descriptors: Rural Education, Rural Schools, Educational Development, Educational Environment
