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Bathurst, Effie G.; Mackintosh, Helen K. – US Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1943
With distance bridged by speedy planes, the Americas of tomorrow will accept as natural and reasonable the exchange of visits between countries separated by several thousand miles. Geography will be learned first hand not confined to books and maps. In the schools of the United States there has long been some inclusion of content on the other…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Curriculum Guides, International Education
Jessen, Carl A. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1938
Periodically since 1890 the Office of Education has attempted to catch and keep a sort of survey picture of the developing secondary school curriculum. Each one shows the school's answer to the question of what is good--educationally--for boys and girls. Each one shows, too, through registration figures for electives, what boys and girls think is…
Descriptors: Educational History, Secondary School Curriculum, High Schools, Junior High Schools
Eddy, Helen M. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1933
The handling of this survey was intrusted to Dr. Leonard V. Koos, of the University of Chicago. With great skill he has, working on a full-time basis during his free quarters from the University of Chicago and part time during other quarters, brought it to a conclusion. This manuscript was prepared by Helen M. Eddy, associate professor of romance…
Descriptors: Educational History, Course Content, Curriculum Guides, Questionnaires

Cook, Kathernine M. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1931
The extent and significance of the American undertaking to provide for or promote free public and universal education among the minority groups and native populations now living under our flag, large numbers of whom are citizens or potential citizens of our Republic, can be appreciated only in the light of the entire situation involved. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, National Surveys, School Statistics