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Tandler, Fredrika M. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1956
This report, based on a selection of information received from States and Territories and many organizations, gives a profile of what is being taught about the United Nations in the United States just 10 years after the organization came into existence. This bulletin discusses the following topics: (1) How are the schools and colleges of the…
Descriptors: Peace, International Cooperation, Profiles, International Organizations
Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1960
Every four years the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations requests a report from each Member State telling how the United Nations and its work are being made known to the citizenry. This bulletin constitutes the report of the United States substantially as it was submitted at the close of 1959. Because the Secretary General had…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Peace, International Cooperation, Textbooks
Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1964
The national summer dropout campaign of 1963 was initiated by President Kennedy. Subsequent to a June 19 meeting at the White House of over 250 leading educators, another group of local administrators met with Federal officials to discuss possible actions that might be taken to reduce dropouts. The ensuing campaign began and ended within a span of…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Summer Programs, Community Cooperation, Presidents
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Tice, Karen W. – Journal of Appalachian Studies, 1998
In the early 1900s, college-educated women who came to Appalachia as reformers and teachers developed contradictory relationships with Appalachian mothers. Writings of Lucy Furman and Ethel deLong, who worked in eastern Kentucky settlement schools, reveal intimate cooperative relationships with mothers, even as teachers aimed to replace…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Child Rearing, Cultural Images, Culture Conflict
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Mackie, Romaine P. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1955
Educational programs for deaf children have been in existence in the United States for almost a century and a half. Through these instructional programs, much has been accomplished which contributes to the lives of those who are deaf, and, during recent years, significant advances have been made in understanding deafness and its…
Descriptors: Teacher Qualifications, Teacher Competencies, Deafness, Hearing Impairments
Fusco, Gene S. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1964
There has developed in recent years a growing realization among educators, social scientists, and others that culturally deprived school-children cannot develop their potential unless they are provided with more educational and cultural opportunities than they typically receive. The educational handicaps stem, in large part, from their culturally…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Neighborhoods, Family School Relationship, Economically Disadvantaged