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Download full textMintz, Frances Sankstone – Macmillan Company, 1914
This textbook offers a series of reading lessons suitable for adult learners. Suitable reading matter for adult foreign pupils in evening schools has always been difficult. The ordinary first and second readers used in day schools, are intended for children, contain as a rule little material of a kind to interest older persons. Either the ideas…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Adult Learning, Reading Materials, Immigrants
Alderman, L. R. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1929
There has been increased interest and activity in the field of adult education during the biennium 1926-1928. The term "adult education" is used in so many ways that the question is often asked, "What is adult education?" "Adult education" came into general use in the United States soon after the World War. The shock of the war so aroused men and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Foreign Countries, War, Citizenship Education
Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1936
The conviction that democratic government rests on an informed electorate was the basis for establishing a free public-school system and State universities. The swift changes in our social and economic life and the complex nature of modern problems require educational facilities beyond the usual programs for children and youth. The agencies of…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Public Education, State Universities, Adult Education
School Life: Official Journal of the U.S. Office of Education. Volume XXVIII. October 1945-July 1946
Jones, Olga A., Ed. – US Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1947
This document contains the October 1945 through July 1946 issues of "School Life," a monthly publication of the U.S. Federal Security Agency Office of Education. This is the first volume since February 1942, when a World War II publishing hiatus began. The journal issues cover a variety of topics across education sectors, immediate…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Education, Foreign Countries
Herlihy, Charles M. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1925
Americanism embraces the ideals of the good citizen in political, social, economic, and cultural relationships. The definition and interpretation of these ideals determine the scope of one's understanding of the movement of Americanization; that is, those programs and activities that aim to promote Americanism. It is commonly understood that…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Adult Education, Illiteracy, African Americans
US Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1949
This document contains the October 1948 through June 1949 issues of "School Life," a monthly publication of the U.S. Federal Security Agency Office of Education. The journal issues cover a variety of topics across education sectors, veterans' education and training, adult education, legislation before Congress, public health, education…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Education, Foreign Countries
Jones, Olga A., Ed. – US Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1949
This document contains the October 1946 through July 1947 issues of "School Life," a monthly publication of the U.S. Federal Security Agency Office of Education. The journal issues cover a variety of topics across education sectors, immediate postwar issues related to U.S. education, veterans' education and training, adult education,…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Education, Foreign Countries
Jones, Olga A., Ed. – US Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1949
This document contains the October 1947 through July 1948 issues of "School Life," a monthly publication of the U.S. Federal Security Agency Office of Education. The journal issues cover a variety of topics across education sectors, immediate postwar issues related to U.S. education, veterans' education and training, adult education,…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Education, Foreign Countries
US Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1950
This document contains the October 1949 through June 1950 issues of "School Life," a monthly publication of the U.S. Federal Security Agency Office of Education. The journal issues cover a variety of topics across education sectors, atomic energy education, education media, school sanitation, veterans' education and training, adult…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Education, Foreign Countries
Mahoney, John J. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1923
Since 1915, when the Americanization "movement" came into being, the American people have joined dozens of Americanization societies, listened to hundreds of people who declaimed Americanization, and read thousands of dissertations, wise and otherwise, on the same theme. For several years past, Americanization movements have been…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Immigrants, Cultural Differences, State Legislation
Gaumnitz, W. H. – US Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1941
This study attempts to show the parts played by the State departments of education relative to general comprehensive programs of adult education, illiteracy eradication, and Americanization; adult-education programs of the Works Progress Administration and the National Youth Administration; educational programs of the Civilian Conservation Corps…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Illiteracy, Vocational Rehabilitation, Out of School Youth
US Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1951
This document contains the October 1950 through June 1951 issues of "School Life," a monthly publication of the U.S. Federal Security Agency Office of Education. The journal issues cover a variety of topics across education sectors, the National Citizens Commission for the Public Schools, atomic energy education, education media, school…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Education, Foreign Countries
Proffitt, Maris M. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1938
Developments in adult education during the past few years have attracted general public interest. Reports, based upon scientific studies, that the ability to learn efficiently continues until late in life, were given widespread dissemination. The significance of this fact for education was readily comprehended not only by schoolmen but by the lay…
Descriptors: Extension Education, Correctional Education, Adult Vocational Education, Correctional Institutions
Lloyd, John H., Ed. – US Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1952
This document contains the October 1951 through June 1952 issues of "School Life," a monthly publication of the U.S. Federal Security Agency Office of Education. The journal issues cover a variety of topics across education sectors, atomic energy education, the United Nations and UNESCO, new school physical plant projects, education…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Education, Foreign Countries
Alderman, L. R. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1928
The instruction of both native and foreign-born persons in the essentials of the English language, numbers, civics, geography, and history is an important task. The United States Bureau of the Census reports that in 1920, nearly 5,000,000 of our population over 10 years of age could not write in any language. The number who need instruction in…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Illiteracy, Adult Literacy, English
