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United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1908
Volume 1 begins with the Commissioner of Education's introduction. Chapters include: (1) the work of the Bureau of Education; (2) a list of the writings of William Torrey Harris; (3) education in Great Britain and Ireland for the year 1906-1907; (4) education in France; (5) education in Central Europe; (6) Educational Activity in Foochow, China;…
Descriptors: Federal Government, Authors, Foreign Countries, Exhibits
Rodriguez-Gomez, Roberto; Casanova-Cardiel, Hugo – Higher Education Policy, 2005
This article analyses recent policies in higher education in Mexico. The last two decades provide the starting point, and the interpretation centres around higher education policies drawn up by successive presidential administrations of Salinas de Gortari (1988-1994) and Zedillo Ponce de Leon (1994-2000). The second part sets out an initial…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Federal Government, Higher Education, Educational Policy
Kilman, Carrie – Teaching Tolerance, 2006
This article features Lourdes Catholic School, a small Catholic school where students grapple with life and learning in the shadow of two nations. The school, which is governed by the Minim Daughters of Mary Immaculate, is located in Nogales, a desert mountain town straddling the line that separates Arizona from the Mexican state of Sonora. Though…
Descriptors: Biculturalism, Foreign Countries, Catholic Schools, Cultural Differences
Gray, Tom – 2001
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which brought an official end to the Mexican American War (1846-1848) was signed on February 2, 1848. Nicholas Trist, chief clerk of the U.S. Statement Department at the time, negotiated the peace treaty in defiance of 1845-1849 President James K. Polk. Trist believed that Mexico must surrender fully, including…
Descriptors: Federal Government, Foreign Countries, Government Role, Primary Sources
Jencks, Christopher – New York Review of Books, 2001
Reviews eight books on immigration, examining the effect of the widening wage gap between immigrant and native workers and discussing why some might want to limit the total number of immigrants. Books describe second generation immigrants; Latinos' experiences; immigration policy and the economy; black identities; immigration's economic,…
Descriptors: Blacks, Children, Cultural Differences, Economic Impact
Rigoni, Florenzo – Migration World, 1987
Presents a profile of Tijuana, Mexico, a city populated by thousands of Latino migrants and would-be emigrants, most living in dire poverty. Focuses on the Scalabrini Center, which provides help and protection without asking for names or citizenship papers. Discusses the impact of the Simpson-Rodino bill and considers the future of those displaced…
Descriptors: Federal Government, Federal Legislation, Latin Americans, Migrants
Marak, Andrae M. – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2005
This article examines the politics behind the initial centralization of primary education in Chihuahua, Mexico during the 1920s and 1930s. The article argues that the centralization of primary education was one of many tools used by the federal government to consolidate its power in the wake of the Mexican Revolution (1910-1917) and create a…
Descriptors: Centralization, Foreign Countries, Federal Government, City Government

Fuentes, Bertha Orozco; Elizando Y Carr, Sandra – International Journal of Educational Reform, 1993
Since the 1970s, each presidential regime has presented an educational modernization reform program for Mexico. Although the various reforms have widened educational opportunities, the quality of education has continued to deteriorate because of student and teacher desertion, a low scholastic progress index, accessibility problems, lack of an…
Descriptors: Bureaucracy, Developing Nations, Economic Factors, Educational Change
National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, DC. – 2002
Tension has existed between the legislative and the executive branches of the U.S. government over war powers since the United States Constitution simultaneously vested Congress with the power to declare war and the President with the power of Commander in Chief. When Texas declared its independence and claimed additional territory to the Rio…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Federal Government, Foreign Countries, Intermediate Grades

Flores, Edmundo – Science, 1979
Describes briefly the National Council for Science and Technology (CONACYT) of Mexico, and outlines Mexico's Program for Science and Technology which includes 2,489 projects in basic and applied sciences at a cost of $260 million from 1978 to 1982. (HM)
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Developmental Programs, Federal Government, Innovation
National Commission for Employment Policy (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1992
This publication presents results of a year-long research program initiated by the National Commission for Employment Policy to research and discuss the employment effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). It contains the letter to the President in which the Commission endorses NAFTA because of its positive employment-creating…
Descriptors: Contracts, Economics, Employment Patterns, Employment Projections

Leclerc, Jacques, Ed.; Maurais, Jacques, Ed. – 1994
The volume is one of a series of six listing language-related legislation around the world. It contains the texts, in French, of laws of Colombia, the United States federal and some state governments (California, Florida, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, and New York), Mexico, and Puerto Rico, and those relating to international…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Federal Government, Federal Legislation, Federal Regulation
Levy, Daniel – 1977
This overview of the history and current state of higher education in Mexico provides perspectives on the distribution of academic power and authority, both within institutions and in the system as a whole. The power structure may be explained in terms of six tiers of power from the department to the national government. The considerable power of…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Administrative Organization, Bibliographies, College Faculty
Chronicle of Higher Education, 2005
"Chronicle of Higher Education" presents an abundant source of news and information for college and university faculty members and administrators. This May 6, 2005 issue of "Chronicle for Higher Education" includes the following articles: (1) "No Extra Credit For You: If It's Exam Week, It Must Be Time for Students to Make…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Trustees, Unions
Chronicle of Higher Education, 2004
"Chronicle of Higher Education" presents an abundant source of news and information for college and university faculty members and administrators. This October 15, 2004 issue of "Chronicle of Higher Education" includes the following articles: (1) "Why Can't Young Scholars Write Their Second Books First" (Garber,…
Descriptors: Scholarships, Higher Education, Immigrants, Terrorism