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Download full textAbel, James F. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1930
From time to time during the past 100 years individuals or organizations have suggested, or seriously proposed, the establishment of a Federal department of education. Immediately after the Civil War the early advocates, led by Henry Barnard, almost succeeded in their plan. In 1867 a bill creating a department of education, introduced into the…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Political Divisions (Geographic), Foreign Countries, Education
