The accomplishments of Janet Emig constitute perhaps the most influential contribution to the study of how humans compose discourse and how teachers should help them. Her background prepared her for her initial goal of becoming a medical doctor, but she determined to study literature because of its enduring interest to her. As a graduate student…

This Spring 1984 issue of The Bookmark comprises articles examining many aspects of the contribution of the University of the State of New York Board of Regents to the growth and development of library programs in the state. The authors and their topics were selected to show the wide range of concerns and interests that the Regents have had in…

An "accredited secondary school," as the term is used in this bulletin, is a school which is equipped to prepare students for colleges requiring at least 14 units for unconditioned admission and which has been investigated or approved for this purpose by one of the following agencies: A State officer of education, a university or college…

The gap between the supply of creatively and intellectually able individuals in America and the demand for the services of highly talented people is constantly widening. Key to the development of provisions for gifted and talented children and youth at the State level will be State department of education personnel directly concerned with such…

Traces the career of Claude A. Eggertsen, who helped to establish comparative education as the centerpiece in the Social Foundations Department of the School of Education at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Discusses Eggertsen's involvement with the Comparative and International Education Society and his view of global awareness as essential…

The phenomenon of the graduate assistant grew out of the turn of the century need for larger teaching staffs. A debate was formed that still influences the way teachers are prepared for today's freshman composition courses. This debate arose from philosophical and methodological differences in English departments, which at that time emphasized a…

Supervision as understood in well-organized city systems has little resemblance to the annual visitation of schools as practiced by many county or other rural superintendents. The majority of these officers are fully conscious of the limitations imposed upon them by the conditions under which they work and they are active in their efforts to…

The Office of Education publishes, at approximately 4-year intervals, a compilation of lists of institutions of high education accredited by nationally recognized regional and professional accrediting agencies and by State agencies responsible for accrediting within the various States. This bulletin is the tenth in the series, replacing the 1952…

This bulletin for teachers and supervisors tells how children of the United States are learning to conserve the Nation's reserves of soil, water, forests, fish, wildlife, minerals, and other natural resources. The purpose of this bulletin is to serve as a source of good practices to be dipped into as needed for ideas, not necessarily to be read…

Results of school district reorganization may be viewed in a number of ways. Frequently progress is measured in terms of the number of local districts eliminated by incorporating their territory in larger units. Results may likewise be measured by increases in the number of new districts having certain characteristics of size or other features…

Because of the individual authority of each State for its own educational program, practices and policies differ widely among them in many respects. Yet in the midst of differences there are also common elements of development. The U. S. Office of Education, in presenting this series of monographs, has attempted to point out those common elements,…

In January 1986, the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) issued several recommendations with far-reaching implications for Virginia's colleges and universities, namely, "that all state-supported institutions of higher education establish procedures and programs to measure student achievement." By all accounts the…

Understanding the absence of composition in western Canada is predicated upon understanding the presence of composition in the United States, the only country in the world with a highly visible tradition of composition. This absence in western Canada, between 1900 and 1950, is largely a matter of appearance--composition in both countries was an…

This report reviews the 32-year history of the provision of instructional television by the South Carolina Department of Education's Office of Instructional Technology and the South Carolina Educational Television Network. Black and white photographs and text show the history of educational television programming and its utilization, as well as…

For much of Maryland's history, formal education was a privilege, not a right. The notion that statewide public education was a public responsibility came slowly, and the institutional system that developed to provide such an education emerged only after considerable debate and experimentation. Education of the female, black, poor, and orphaned…