Challenging conventional wisdom that Mexican Americans were passive victims of their educational fates, this book examines the Mexican American struggle for equal education during the 1960s and 1970s in a California community "Brownfield." It looks at responses of a predominantly White school system and community to the growing number of…

Volume II includes statistics and discussion on state common-school systems; public school retirement-allowance systems; city school systems; universities, colleges, and technological schools; agricultural and mechanical colleges; professional schools; public and private normal schools; summer schools; Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA)…

Historical studies have tended to take a simplistic view of minority groups as passive victims of an oppressive and racist public school system. This book looks at Mexican Americans as active agents in history and documents their quest for educational equality in Texas--a state notorious for its record of inferior and separate schooling for…

The interest of the American people in education, the extent and rapid growth of education as public enterprise, and the popularization of secondary schools in recent years are well known and are subjects of frequent comment. Less well known, however, are the interest and activity of the Negro, one of the constituent elements in American life, in…

People in all walks of life have found it necessary to make adjustments to new occupational situations resulting from recent developments in science and technology. Although Negroes have shown exceptional capacity in the past to adopt the American social and economic order, they are finding it difficult to adjust themselves to the present modern…

The land-grant colleges and universities in the United States are the result of a partnership of the States and the Federal Government. They represent an effort to provide a type of higher education within the reach of, and adapted to the needs of, the agricultural and industrial people of this country. They have played a very important part in…

This publication is designed to encourage and assist those who seek to improve school systems through the improvement of school laws. This is a revised edition of "Know Your School Law," Bulletin 1952 No. 1, by Dr. Ward W. Keesecker, and is part of the Office of Education program to develop a clearinghouse of timely and useful information on…

This report is made in accordance with the provisions of the land-grant act of 1862 and the Morrill-Nelson Acts of 1890 and 1907, which charge the Secretary of the Interior with the proper administration of those funds. There are now 69 land-grant colleges in the United States and outlying possessions. Thirty-five of these institutions, located in…

The land-grant colleges and universities in the United States are the result of a partnership of the States and the Federal Government. They represent an effort to provide a type of higher education within the reach of, and adapted to the needs of, the agricultural and industrial people of this country. They have played a very important part in…

It is the responsibility of the Bureau of Education to supervise the Federal funds which the land-grant colleges receive from the first Morrill Act of 1862, and from the Morrill-Nelson provisions of 1890 and 1907. The presidents of these institutions are required to make in detail a special annual report concerning the enrollments, teaching staff,…

For more than a quarter of a century the United States has witnessed a period remarkable in the variety and the extent of its scientific achievements. This is all the more apparent if individuals compare developments in the fields of agriculture, engineering, and their allied sciences and industries with those of the preceding period. Likewise a…

The first Morrill Act signed by President Lincoln on July 2, 1862, provided for the establishment in each State of a college of agriculture and the mechanic arts. By this act each State received an amount of public land (or land scrip) equal to 30,000 acres for each Senator and Representative in Congress to which it was then entitled. The proceeds…

The past year has witnessed considerable progress in the field of Negro education, despite adverse conditions brought about by the war. Probably the most significant event of the year was the appointment in Texas of a State supervisor of rural Negro schools, whose salary and expenses are paid entirely by the State. Short terms, poor schoolhouses,…

This report is made in accordance with the provisions of the land-grant act of 1862 and the Morrill-Nelson Acts of 1890 and 1907. To assure the proper usage of these funds, the specialist in charge of land-grant college statistics makes, from reports submitted by the treasurers of the land-grant colleges, an audit of disbursements from the funds.…

This is the annual statistical report of land-grant colleges and universities prepared in accordance with the responsibilities of the U. S. Office of Education under the Second Morrill Act, The Nelson Amendment, and Title II of the Bankhead-Jones Act. It is published separately from the "Biennial Survey of Education." In general, there…