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Boylan, Hunter R.; Trawick, Amy R. – Research & Teaching in Developmental Education, 2015
Many organizations from legislative bodies to advocacy groups to research centers have recently "discovered" developmental education in much the same way as Columbus discovered America. In the middle of the first decade of the 21st century, private philanthropic organizations, initially led by the Lumina Foundation (n.d.), promoted a…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Educational History, Postsecondary Education, Remedial Instruction
United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1915
The problems of industry, government, and life in the modern industrial and commercial city are numerous, large, and complex. For their solution a larger amount of scientific knowledge and higher standards of intelligence among citizens are needed. All the city's agencies for good and progress need to be united and vitalized for more effective…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Urban Universities, Urban Environment