Before the U.S. Civil War, vocational education was relegated to apprenticeship training and a few scattered schools dedicated to the purpose. The Civil War brought widespread death and destruction throughout the South. By the end of the war, half of the land mass and population of the reunited United States of America had been destroyed. A major…

Problems that existed during the 1937-1945 era at George Peabody College for Teachers were investigated, using a historiographical approach. In addition to a search of various kinds of records, interviews were conducted with faculty, staff workers, and administrators. The Delphi technique was used to isolate problems of an administrative nature,…

This document examines the chronological history of financing the Alaskan public school system. The first section traces the influence of the Greco-Russian Church and the Russian-American Company on education in Russian Alaska. The second section focuses on early United States education efforts, including the Sheldon Jackson era, the Organic Act…

An overview is provided of the fiscal development of the Illinois public community college system. Introductory sections consider the history and administrative structure of the system, and explain special funding provisions of the Public Junior College Act of 1965. The next section provides a profile of past state appropriations, focusing on…

During a meeting held on May 2, 1980, the House Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary, and Vocational Education focused on the administration of the Indian Education Act, Title IV of Public Law 92-318. Title IV of Public Law 92-318 and Title XI of Public Law 95-561 (legislation administered within the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare)…

Herein is a companion study to the report on "State Policies in Public-School Finance," published as Bulletin No. 6, 1922, which was written with a view to summarizing the most significant conclusions resulting from a series of comprehensive investigations of public-school finance made by Doctor Swift and others in 11 different States. In the…

Throughout the United States today schools and community colleges are putting greater emphasis than ever before upon adult education. Obvious reasons for this include the manpower demands of national defense, the spreading desire for educational upgrading, and the impact of technological change upon the daily lives of millions of workers. For each…

This directory presents information relating to institutional financial aid programs which were active during the 1959-60 academic year. To collect information for this directory, over 2,100 copies of a questionnaire, "Survey of Institutional Financial Assistance to Undergraduate Students, 1959-60," were mailed to institutions of higher education,…

This document contains the October 1946 through July 1947 issues of "School Life," a monthly publication of the U.S. Federal Security Agency Office of Education. The journal issues cover a variety of topics across education sectors, immediate postwar issues related to U.S. education, veterans' education and training, adult education,…

This document contains the October 1947 through July 1948 issues of "School Life," a monthly publication of the U.S. Federal Security Agency Office of Education. The journal issues cover a variety of topics across education sectors, immediate postwar issues related to U.S. education, veterans' education and training, adult education,…

In the past 25 years, educational economists have made a substantial contribution to thinking about problems of resource allocations to education and of returns on education. They still have an important contribution to make in the development of cost and financial analysis and in efficiency studies. (Editor/SJL)

Examines the effects of educational philanthropy in the career of Horace Mann Bond, Black educational scholar and college administrator. Finds that in Bond's dealings with the General Education Board (GEB) and the Julius Rosenwald Fund, the benefactor-beneficiary relationship simultaneously supported him and effectively halted his scholarly…

Discusses the Rockefellers' educational philanthropy, specifically, the Rockefeller Foundation, University of Chicago, Rockefeller University, and Spelman College. Rockefeller created the agencies to handle the identification and development of a constituency, the capability to define and redefine missions, the creation of future leadership, and…

The most conspicuous and pertinent tendency in rural education in the biennium is that toward better understanding of and intelligent accomplishment in the direction of more equitable distribution of school opportunities and school expense burdens. Rural education is still the weak spot in the American educational system. The passing of the…

In a special election in 1967, Johnson County (Kansas) voters approved by a three-to-one margin the establishment of a community college district, and in June 1969, voters approved $12.9 million in bonds to purchase a 220-acre site and to construct five buildings for a permanent campus. In August 1969, classes began in leased facilities, and in…