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Hoepli, Nancy L., Ed. – 1990
The 1990 Great Decisions program, part of an annual series on foreign policy issues, is intended to create better better public understanding through information and analyses of important international issues. Current information is presented so that participants may be stimulated toward discussion, form opinions and contribute to the policy…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Asian History, Citizenship Education, Citizenship Responsibility
Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1919
The main objective of this study was to procure reliable information on the education, experience, and general character of the rural teaching force of Nebraska, together with the first-hand knowledge of some of the conditions contributing to the home and school environment of these teachers. This knowledge was obtained by means of a…
Descriptors: Teacher Recruitment, Educational Development, Rural Schools, Teacher Education
Butler, Fred Clayton – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1920
Americanization is in the end a task for the individual citizen and not for the Government. The individual can be successful in so human a problem only by having a sympathetic knowledge of this task and of those with whom he must deal. To supply at least the foundations of this knowledge is the purpose of this book. The contents are taken largely…
Descriptors: Educational History, Immigrants, Citizenship Education, Guides
Butler, Fred Clayton – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1920
There are many thousands of people who are in a position to exert great influence in the work of Americanization, through their leadership or membership in State legislatures, State bureaus and departments, and State organizations, official and voluntary. The primary purpose of this book is to lay before that body of men and women some concrete…
Descriptors: Educational History, Immigrants, Citizenship Education, State Surveys
Shelby, Thomas H. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1926
This report concerns itself with the growth and progress of "general" university extension for the biennial period 1922-1924. By general university extension is meant extension activities of universities and colleges in the fields not covered by agricultural and home economics extension under the Federal subsidy acts through the Federal land-grant…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Extension Education, Land Grant Universities, Federal Legislation
Alderman, L. R. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1927
For the purpose of this report, adult education is assumed to have the following characteristics: (1) It is carried on voluntarily and during the leisure time of a mature individual; and (2) The study is seriously undertaken and is pursued under guidance. During the past biennium there has been much activity in the field of adult education. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Educational Opportunities, Adult Education