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Peer reviewedWalters, Pamela Barnhouse; James, David R. – American Sociological Review, 1992
Data from North Carolina and South Carolina in 1910 indicate that racially segregated labor markets and racially unequal school systems affected school enrollment of African-American and white children. Research focusing on the textile industry suggests that school enrollment expansion was constrained by limited availability of educational…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Black Students, Child Labor, Educational History
Download full textOffice of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1959
This document is a bound copy of reports of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, including the Office of Education, for 1957-1959. The Office of Education presents data and discussion on U.S. education across sectors and jurisdictions, as well as the work of the Office of Education. Among additional topics covered are record…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Enrollment, Teacher Shortage, Educational Facilities
Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1962
This document is a bound copy of reports of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, including the Office of Education, for 1960-1962. The Office of Education presents data and discussion on U.S. education across sectors and jurisdictions, as well as the work of the Office of Education. Among additional topics covered are the National…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, National Security, State Departments of Education
Swift, Fletcher Harper – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1923
Every great war in which the United States has played a part has been followed by educational developments of supreme national importance. As the result of the Revolutionary War the Federal Government acquired a vast public land domain from which it has carved generous grants to the States. Those became the foundation of systems of free public…
Descriptors: Educational History, Government Role, Role of Education, Educational Trends
PDF pending restorationCook, Kathernine M. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1931
The extent and significance of the American undertaking to provide for or promote free public and universal education among the minority groups and native populations now living under our flag, large numbers of whom are citizens or potential citizens of our Republic, can be appreciated only in the light of the entire situation involved. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, National Surveys, School Statistics
Maphis, Charles G. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1923
This report is not a complete survey of educational extension in the United States. The limitations of time, space, and cost forestall a complete detailed statistical review of the work of the past biennium. A full account in detail would require visits to every Commonwealth, a very large expenditure of time and money, and a report of several…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Extension Education, Popular Education, Educational Development
US Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1946
During the early part of the present century it became clear that in our efforts to emphasize general education we were neglecting vocational education. The agitation to correct that defect resulted in the passage of the Smith-Hughes law in 1917 and the development of an effective system of vocational education "of less than college…
Descriptors: Vocational High Schools, Vocational Education, Higher Education, Postsecondary Education
