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Peer reviewedGraebner, William – History of Education Quarterly, 1978
Traces development of pensions for retired teachers from 1891 to the 1930s. Presents excerpts from educational literature and primary sources such as letters and speeches to indicate various attitudes toward salaries, cost of living, financial problems of public school administration, and legislation mandating teacher retirement pay. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Economic Status, Educational History, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education
Download full textBureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1918
The survey committee of the United States Bureau of Education brings to Columbia, South Carolina's attention those practices which are generally held by other communities, for the present, at least, to be the best. In its effort to get at the facts it has received the unhesitating cooperation of the school commissioners, the superintendent, and…
Descriptors: Educational Opportunities, Public Schools, Maintenance, Programming
Covert, Timon – Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1949
In 1932 the Office of Education published a bibliography on educational finance as one of the reports of the National Survey of School Finance (Bibliography on Educational Finance, 1923-31, U. S. Office of Education Bulletin 1932, No. 15). This bulletin contains a classified and annotated list of reports and studies published since that time, to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Educational Finance, Bibliographies
