The purpose of this paper, one of three related documents, is to describe the events leading to the creation and organization of the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, which was authorized by Congress in 1972 through the Educational Amendments Act. The legislative mandate for the fund was to improve postsecondary educational…

This document contains issues of "Teachers Magazine" from September 1914 to June 1915, published monthly except for July and August. Issues typically include sections with music, plays, songs, poems, and games; a calendar for the month; monthly plans; and sections on picture study; current-events classroom talks; grade work; books; and…

This document contains monthly issues of "Teachers Magazine" from September 1906 to June 1907. Issues typically include sections with music, plays, songs, poems, and games; a calendar for the month; monthly plans; and sections on picture study; current-events classroom talks; grade work; books; and miscellaneous topics. [This volume was…

This document contains issues of "Teachers Magazine" from September 1910 to June 1911, published monthly except July and August. Issues typically include sections with music, plays, songs, poems, and games; a calendar for the month; monthly plans; and sections on picture study; current-events classroom talks; grade work; books; and…

The acting president of Foxfire reflects on organizational changes during its 35-year history--changes from a local organization focused on a new way to teach high school English, to a national organization focused on educational reform, to a regional organization focused on teacher support and cultural heritage. A 35-year timeline is included.…

The increase in the population of the United States and the rapid movement of people from rural to urban areas continue to create many problems in the great cities. To solve them, immediate and long-range goals must be cooperatively established and striven for. Even though many of the legally constituted agencies such as the school systems, boards…

Various names, such as teacher's home, manse, teacherage, attic apartment, "Lean-to" and dominage are applied to the district--owned buildings or to rooms in the schoolhouse that provide living quarters for teachers. There various titles convey no differences in meaning. All serve the same general purpose, to describe a comfortable…

In the past 10 years the play movement has illuminated the educational value of play. The old-time school yard, with its limited space and its restrictive traditions, is entirely unsuited to the new uses demanded by the new ideals, and there is going on everywhere a reconstruction of theory and practice to meet the new requirements. As in all…

Analyzes African development strategies as a response to conditions and limitations imposed by a history of colonialism and neocolonialism. (Author/MJL)

Provides an account of how three elementary school teachers, two in Australia and one in the United States, used multimedia to enhance student learning. Topics include a historical context of trends in school computing, computer-enhanced learning, reflective learning, concept development, cooperative learning, and learning planning skills.…

A theory of organizational development is developed from turn-of-the-century geopolitical studies by combining the following: Smithian and Darwinian perspectives; the firmer concepts of management; and strategic planning views. An attempt is made to explore natural organizational processes by considering geopolitical, economic, biological, and…

This report presents the results of a project designed to assist the Department of Education, Office of Libraries and Learning Technologies (OLLT), and the wider community serves to identify research priorities for the 1980s in the field of library and information science. The rationale for establishing a national research agenda for the 1980s is…

The study of "Functional Planning of Elementary School Buildings" is a cooperative piece of work carried to completion by the Office of Education with very generous assistance from the National Advisory Council on School Building Problems. The Office is under deep obligation to the National Advisory Council for the time and thought which the…

In February, 1922, the United States Commissioner of Education, John J. Tigert, called the First National Conference on the Work-Study-Play, or Platoon. One result of this conference was that the superintendents who attended asked the United States Bureau of Education to serve as a clearing house of information in regard to the work-study-play…

It is a well-known fact that, while we have a considerable body of literature on public-school administration, information on collegiate administration is meager. This is especially true concerning the problems of the registration office. In collecting the data used for this report, the institutions holding membership in the Association of…