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Download full textKelly, Fred J. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1937
Education in the United States has developed from two opposite starting points. Colleges were organized to train leaders, particularly for churches and the courts. They needed schools to prepare their prospective students, and so a system of academics grew up dominated largely by colleges. Widespread public elementary schools, however, developed…
Descriptors: Liberal Arts, College Attendance, Attendance Patterns, College Transfer Students
Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1933
The statistics presented in Chapter I of this report relate entirely to the public elementary and secondary schools in State school systems, with a few figures included for kindergarten and private elementary and secondary schools. The information contained herein has been furnished by the State offices of education in 48 States, the District of…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Urban Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, State Schools
Foster, Emery M.; Herlihy, Lester B.; Comstock, Lula M.; Isdell, Julia E.; Deffenbaugh, Walter S. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1933
This bulletin provides the second chapter of the Biennial Survey of Education, 1930-32, which has been published in separate chapters dealing with a segment only of the educational system. The statistics presented in this report document city public schools for the school year 1931-32. The cities are divided into four population groups on the…
Descriptors: Average Daily Attendance, Expenditures, Urban Schools, Teacher Student Ratio
Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1918
The survey committee of the United States Bureau of Education brings to Columbia, South Carolina's attention those practices which are generally held by other communities, for the present, at least, to be the best. In its effort to get at the facts it has received the unhesitating cooperation of the school commissioners, the superintendent, and…
Descriptors: Educational Opportunities, Public Schools, Maintenance, Programming
Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1921
The Biennial Survey of Education presents the statistics of practically all the important school systems in the United States for 1917-18. The various chapters in the volume have been printed as bulletins. Volume III of the 1916-18 Biennial Survey includes the following chapters: (1) Statistical Survey of Education, 1917-18; (2) State School…
Descriptors: School Districts, Urban Schools, Statistical Surveys, Public Schools
Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1918
At a meeting of the Arizona School Official's Association held in April, 1915, a resolution was passed instructing the president of the association to appoint a committee to arrange for an educational survey of the State. Members of the bureau staff visited schools in 12 of the 14 counties, and in 22 of the 24 cities employing city…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Politics of Education, Urban Schools, Surveys
Weeks, Stephen B. – United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1915
Just 60 years ago the State of Alabama made its first formal essay toward a State-supported and State-administered public-school system. During this period there have been many ups and downs of educational fortune, but there has been progress. This bulletin describes the main characteristics of the educational experience of Alabama over the last…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Public Education, Educational History, Population Trends
Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1917
The effective education of the Negroes of the United States is essential to the welfare of the entire Nation, and especially of the Southern States. In view of this fact, the information contained in this bulletin has immediate and practical value of a very high degree. Noteworthy elements in the preparation of this report on Negro education are:…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, African American Education, Educational Facilities, United States History
