Provides a short history of educational theater. Discusses trends in commercial and educational theater. Recommends integration, collaboration, and communication for the 1990s. (PRA)

Reviews adult education provision for older learners since the 1950s, detailing Howard McClusky's constructions to the emerging discipline of educational gerontology. (SK)

The scientific movement in educational research began in the late 19th century and has expanded exponentially in the 20th century. The origins of the movement are commonly associated with the expansion of measurement and survey methods in clinical psychology and the social sciences. This paper argues that the medical sciences also served as a…

A brief biography is presented of Henry Barnard, one of the leading educators in America during the first half of the 19th century. An early and forceful advocate of free public education, Barnard promulgated his ideas through public service and teaching as well as through writings in "The American Journal of Education," which he edited…

Looking back over the 14-year history of Oakton Community College (OCC) with its cluster system of organization, this paper examines the distinctions between discipline-oriented organization and the cluster system, and discusses the current rationale for OCC's maintenance of this approach. First introductory material describes how the president…

Examined in this essay is the impact Cardozo had on the education of Blacks in South Carolina. Considered are his roles as a teacher, a principal, and a politician. (EB)

Three generations of teachers, who might be found in one school, are described. The generations are identified as: contractual singlehood; teaching as insurance; and role juggling. A fourth generation--the future--is also described. (MT)

The author discusses the early years of mass production and how it became part of the industrial arts curriculum through the work of Fred Reagle. Impediments to the development of mass production curricula are considered: (1) negative image of industry, (2) potential to exploit students, and (3) loss of cultural heritage. (CH)

Chronicles Henry David Thoreau's early positions as a nontraditional, progressive, futuristic teacher, tutor, and schoolmaster. Explains how Thoreau's disposition for observing, questioning, and evaluating led him to leave education and nurture his role as a naturalist and philosopher. (NEC)

Written by the director of the Laboratory for the History of Education under the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences in Moscow, this article documents the status of historical research on schooling in medieval Russia. (JDH)

Early in 1952, Allen P. Britton and Warren S. Freeman submitted an article to the "Music Educators Journal" proposing the establishment of a research journal for music education. The history of the subsequent "Journal of Research in Music Education" is described. (RM)

The history of US research universities during the first four decades of the twentieth century is examined. By the end of the 1920s the standard American university of 1910 had been transformed into a new pattern of professional uniformity and institutional diversity. (RM)

Traces the 100-year history of Middle Georgia College, a two-year unit of the University System of Georgia, founded in 1884. Provides insights on early life at the college as revealed by the 1892-93 catalog and describes centennial events. (DMM)

Presents brief biographies of two men involved in prison reform: Thomas Mott Osborne (who allowed convicts to manage democratically every aspect of prison activity) and Austin MacCormick (founder of the Correctional Education Association and the Journal of Correctional Education). (CT)

This bulletin constitutes a complete author and subject index to the 2,380 entries contained in the 10 numbers of the "Monthly Record of Current Educational Publications" issued from February, 1920, to January, 1921, inclusive. The record was published each month during this period, with the exception of July and August. The references…