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Hunt, John W.; Morice, Linda C. – American Educational History Journal, 2008
This essay explores factors creating Missouri's minimum attendance laws for black students from the end of the Civil War to the enactment of compulsory education in the state in 1905. It argues that, although blacks made notable efforts at educational advancement, they were caught in a crossfire of opposing forces stemming from wartime…
Descriptors: United States History, Compulsory Education, War, Counties
Langhorst, Eric – School Library Journal, 2006
In this article, the author describes how he introduced a history project that blended a book discussion activity and the use of blogs to his eighth-grade class. Over four weeks, his class participated in a lively collective journal centered on an assigned piece of reading: "Guerrilla Season" by Pat Hughes. The historical novel, set…
Descriptors: War, Adolescent Literature, Web Sites, History Instruction
Foght, H. W. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1917
This bulletin was prepared to indicate recent progress in rural life and education as disclosed by the educational exhibits at the Panama-Pacific Exposition of 1915. The discussion includes (1) the general phases of progress in rural education, and (2) advancement in its more specific agricultural phases. Little attempt has been made to present…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, United States History, State Colleges, Private Agencies
United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1902
After the Commissioner of Education's introduction, Volume 1 presents state school system statistics and a list of U.S. Bureau of Education publications. Chapters cover central European education; Ohio public school legislative history; school consolidation and pupil transportation; U.S. industrial education; educational pathology; formation of an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Schools, Educational Legislation, Student Transportation