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Cummings, Milton C.; Allen, Muriel M.; Hess, Karl – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1961
The Office of Education is requested frequently to supply information about education and community organization for aging. This publication adds to the literature in the growing field of professional and community concern. The publication may have its major use as a handbook for community and school leaders who wish specific information about…
Descriptors: Educational History, Older Adults, Lifelong Learning, Adult Education
Butler, Fred Clayton – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1920
Americanization is in the end a task for the individual citizen and not for the Government. The individual can be successful in so human a problem only by having a sympathetic knowledge of this task and of those with whom he must deal. To supply at least the foundations of this knowledge is the purpose of this book. The contents are taken largely…
Descriptors: Educational History, Immigrants, Citizenship Education, Guides
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Fleming, Louise E. – Mid-Western Educational Researcher, 1995
Briefly describes the experiences of three persons who attended and taught in one-room schools primarily in Ashland County (Ohio) from approximately 1900 to the 1920s. Discusses the close interrelationships among home, school, and community, and the rural protests against consolidation of one-room schools in 1939. (SV)
Descriptors: Educational Experience, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education, One Teacher Schools
Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1953
This bulletin is one of a series that tells how teachers, pupils, parents, and other citizens have worked together to improve the quality of education for the children of their communities. "How Children Use the Community for Learning" describes the work of a city school of 450 pupils with no regular supervision, the Garfield School of…
Descriptors: School Community Relationship, Educational Change, Physical Development, Educational Quality
Kent State Univ., OH. Ohio Literacy Resource Center. – 2001
This document is a compilation of 33 pieces of writing presenting Ohio adult basic and literacy education (ABLE) students' perspectives of community and personal history. The items included in the compilation were written by ABLE students across Ohio in celebration of Ohio History Day. The compilation is organized in five sections as follows: (1)…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs
Kent State Univ., OH. Ohio Literacy Resource Center. – 2002
This document is a compilation of 25 pieces of writing presenting Ohio adult basic and literacy education (ABLE) students' perspectives of community and personal history. The items included in the compilation were written by ABLE students across Ohio. The compilation is organized in three sections as follows: (1) people (9 items, including a…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs
Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1916
The Association of Urban Universities held its second conference in Cincinnati, November 15-17, 1915. The program, focusing on a consideration of training for public service, had three subdivisions: (1) the needs for cooperation between the university and the city governments in providing training for public service; (2) methods of training; and…
Descriptors: Cooperative Education, Public Service, Conferences (Gatherings), Urban Universities