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Lowenthal, Abraham F. – 1986
One of a series, this booklet on world issues explains why Brazil has become important for the United States. Brazil's rise from a sleeping giant to continental leader is investigated. Brazil's impressive economic growth from the mid-1960s through the 1970s is explored. An analysis of Brazil's economic crisis of the 1980s is also explained.…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Current Events, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries
Download full textBigelow, Donald N.; Legters, Lyman H. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1964
This bulletin reports on the contributions of the Federal Government to the improvement of language and area studies. This report indicates that two fundamental conclusions have become readily apparent: (1) non-Western studies have received material assistance under the National Defense Education Act of 1958 (NDEA) without which the present high…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Area Studies, Federal Aid, Federal Government
PDF pending restorationBathurst, Effie G.; Mackintosh, Helen K. – US Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1943
With distance bridged by speedy planes, the Americas of tomorrow will accept as natural and reasonable the exchange of visits between countries separated by several thousand miles. Geography will be learned first hand not confined to books and maps. In the schools of the United States there has long been some inclusion of content on the other…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Curriculum Guides, International Education
