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Sun, Yilin – TESOL Journal, 2010
In 2005, TESOL sponsored a survey to respond to the growing concerns of the organization's Adult Education Interest Section (AEIS). The results showed that interest section members were deeply concerned with inequitable workloads, less-than-desirable working conditions, heavy reliance on part-time teachers, and much-needed professional development…
Descriptors: Employment Patterns, Adult Education, Second Language Learning, Advocacy
Ferguson, Arthur Wesley – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1925
The chief factors in State administration of public education are the State board, the State superintendent, and the professional staff of the State departments of education. Several valuable studies have been made of the State board and the State superintendent. It is the purpose of the present study to supplement these with an investigation of…
Descriptors: State Departments of Education, Professional Personnel, Educational History, Educational Administration
Keesecker, Ward W. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1929
During the biennium 1926-1928 approximately 1,200 educational acts of general application were passed in the continental United States. The outstanding general feature is the increased tendency to employ educational surveys and state-wide investigations as bases for educational legislation. In recent years legislatures and school officials have…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Superintendents, Counties, School Support
Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1928
Activities in higher education during the biennium 1924-1926 do not seem to have been inspired merely by the desire to pacify criticism of details or to patch up weak spots in the educational fabric. The tendency was to "raise the previous question concerning the functions of colleges and universities and to modify procedures to serve more…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Salary Wage Differentials, Educational Objectives, Surveys
Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1927
This bulletin contains a classified and annotated list of current educational publications received by the library of the Bureau of Education during the second quarter of 1927, April to June, inclusive. Contents are arranged in the following categories: (1) Educational history and biography; (2) Current educational conditions; (3) International…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Annotated Bibliographies, Educational History, Sex Education
Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1927
This bulletin contains a classified and annotated list of current educational publications received by the library of the Bureau of Education during the first quarter of 1927, January to March, inclusive. The last preceding list in this series of records was issued as Bulletin, 1927, No. 2, and comprised publications received by the Bureau of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Annotated Bibliographies, Educational History, Individual Differences