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Whitcomb, Emeline S. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1925
A national conference of city supervisors of home economics was called by the U.S. Commissioner of Education, and attended by representatives from 20 States and the District of Columbia, plus one representative from New Zealand. The three-day conference was convened in Washington, D.C., to: (1) bring together supervisors, teachers of home…
Descriptors: Health Education, Home Economics Education, Citizenship, Home Economics
United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1913
All superintendents of schools in cities of 5,000 population and over were recently invited by the United States Commissioner of Education to describe plans or methods they had worked out in their respective schools during the past few years. In response to this invitation, several hundred letters were received. Some gave complete accounts of one…
Descriptors: Educational History, National Surveys, Educational Innovation, School Administration