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Download full textEaton, J. Shirley – United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1909
When the writer, nine years ago, investigated for the Bureau of Education the subject of education for railroad service, the whole matter was in a very indefinite status. The monograph published at that time was little more than a collation of widely diverse opinions of railroad men. The advance made in the present decade is very surprising to…
Descriptors: Transportation, Males, Educational Methods, Vocational Education
Proffitt, Maris M. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1927
A survey of educational literature, of courses of study both in the public schools and teacher-training institutions, of the programs of educational conventions, of conference reports, and of special reports from many school systems leads to the conclusion that more activity has been manifested during the past two years in the study of the…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Films, Visual Aids, Occupational Information
Wright, Carroll D. – United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1908
The interest in industrial education which has arisen in this country has brought into new prominence the whole system of training for trades by a regular course of apprenticeship. Education by apprenticeship and education by schools have gone on for many generations side by side as two entirely distinct and unrelated forms of education. The newer…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Apprenticeships, Industrial Education
Taylor, E. H. – United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1915
The object of this report is to give an account, in such a form as to allow comparisons, of the instruction in mathematics in the Lower and Middle Commercial and Industrial Schools in the countries reporting to the International Commission on the Teaching of Mathematics. The data of this report have been taken entirely from the reports of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Mathematics Education, Mathematics Instruction
Evans, Henry R. – United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1913
In this country and abroad there is a general and increasing interest in industrial education and in the various forms of vocation and trade schools. Teachers, school boards, civic organizations, manufacturers, trades-unions, city and State officials are working apart and together to formulate some practical program whereby this type of education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Annotated Bibliographies, Trade and Industrial Education
Proffitt, Maris M. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1931
This chapter of the "Biennial Survey of Education in the United States, 1928-1930" focuses on the following topic areas as they relate to industrial education: (1) Progress in industrial education; (2) The effect of unemployment; (3) Plans of administrative organization; (4) Industrial work in small schools; (5) Industrial arts; (6) Entrance…
Descriptors: Educational History, National Surveys, Administrative Organization, Industrial Arts
