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Download full textJessen, Carl A. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1931
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…
Descriptors: Educational History, Secondary Education, Junior High Schools, High Schools
Steiner, Arch K. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1959
In keeping with the functions of the Office of Education, the Laws and Legislation Branch is presenting a brief resume of the laws having statewide educational implication enacted by the 46 State legislatures which met in 1957. This publication was prepared in response to requests from Chief State School Officers and other educators and…
Descriptors: Educational History, School Construction, School Buildings, Financial Support
Keesecker, Ward W. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1939
No argument would seem to be needed to prove that knowledge of contemporary legislation affecting education is of a practical advantage to every educational worker and to all citizens of representative government. Under our system it is the prerogative of a State legislature to overcome legal obstacles, or to set up new legal instruments for…
Descriptors: School Administration, Public Education, Private Schools, Federal Legislation
Hood, William R., Comp. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1925
The legislation summarized in this compilation was enacted in the two-year period comprising the calendar years 1922 and 1923, and represents the educational enactments of regular legislative sessions of all the States and of several special or extraordinary sessions. Material is organized in 21 major classification categories, plus additional…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, School Law, Teacher Certification, Contracts
Elliott, Edward C. – United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1910
The work presented in this bulletin is in continuation of the plan inaugurated three years ago, which has resulted in two similar publications covering the periods 1904-1906 and 1906-1908 (Bulletin, 1906, No. 3, and Bulletin, 1908, No. 7). In this bulletin an attempt has been made to classify and to analyze the changes wrought in the public school…
Descriptors: Educational History, School Law, Educational Legislation, State Legislation
Hood, William R., Comp. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1921
The material presented in this compilation constitutes a second supplement to Bulletin, 1915, No. 47, "Digest of Stage Laws Relating to Public Education," the first such supplement having been embodied in Bulletin, 1918, No. 23, "State Laws Relating to Education, Enacted in 1915, 1916, and 1917." The period covered extends from…
Descriptors: Educational History, School Law, State Legislation, State Agencies
Hood, William R. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1919
Within the two years comprehended in this review, the Congress of the United States has been in almost continuous session and all the states, except Alabama have held meetings of their legislative bodies. Six states, Georgia, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and South Carolina hold annual meetings of their legislatures, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Federal Government, Federal Programs, Politics of Education
