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Peer reviewedMeadmore, Peter – Journal of Education Policy, 2001
Reviews changes introduced to Australian public education over the past decade, comparing them against the "free, compulsory, and secular" education acts implemented in every Australian colony during the late 19th century. The principles and social values underlying the establishment of public education have been significantly eroded.…
Descriptors: Bureaucracy, Centralization, Compulsory Education, Educational Change
Download full textAbel, James F. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1938
The purpose of the Biennial Survey of Education in the United States is to present to the people of this Nation a picture, as complete and accurate as possible, of the many types of education they finance, administer, and maintain. But this isolated picture is not enough. The worth, activity, and progress of any system of schools are relative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Surveys, International Education
