This report presents proceedings from a conference on teacher quality held in Washington, DC in January 2000. Sessions focused on recruitment; teacher preparation; beginning teacher support; college-school partnerships; minority group teachers; Hispanic and language minority teachers; preparing teachers at the community college level; curricular…

This 1922 educational directory published by the Bureau of Education covers the following categories: (1) United States Bureau of Education; (2) Principal State school officers; (3) County and other local superintendents of schools; (4) Superintendents of public schools in cities and towns; (5) Presidents of universities and colleges; (6)…

This 1925 educational directory published by the Bureau of Education covers the following categories: (1) United States Bureau of Education; (2) Principal State school officers; (3) County and other local superintendents of schools; (4) Superintendents of public schools in cities and towns; (5) Public-school business managers; (6) Presidents of…

This 1927 educational directory published by the Bureau of Education covers the following categories: (1) United States Bureau of Education; (2) Principal State school officers; (3) County and other local superintendents of schools; (4) Superintendents of public schools in cities and towns; (5) Public-school business managers; (6) Presidents of…

This bulletin presents a study of the development of education in New Zealand. Chapter I, Historical Development of Education, covers the growth of education since 1877. Chapter II, Educational Administration and Finance provides details on the Act of 1877; the organization, functions and responsibilities of the Department of Education; and the…

For the twenty-sixth year, the Research and Theory Division of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) is sponsoring the publication of these Proceedings. This is Volume 2 of the 26th Annual Proceedings of Selected Papers On the Practice of Educational Communications and Technology presented at the National AECT…

An edition of the bulletin on accredited institutions of higher education has been published at approximately four-year intervals since the first issue in 1917, the last being published in 1934. It is used by university and college officers in evaluating transfer credits, by State departments of education in checking teachers' credentials, by high…

The Seventy-first Congress authorized a survey of the education of teachers on a Nation-wide scope. The board of consultants and the associate director were appointed in July 1930. The Survey was organized and its scope determined by October of that year. The next 2 years were spent in gathering data and the time since then in preparing, editing,…

Australia's large distances and widely distributed population has meant that distance education has been an important part of its history. From the earliest provision of schooling by mail through a series of correspondence schools, both state and federal governments have provided a sound infrastructure to support distance education. Innovative…

In November 1948 the United States Office of Education received an invitation through the Embassy of Sweden, Washington, D.C., from the Sweden-America Foundation in Stockholm for Dr. Alina M. Lindegren, Specialist in European Education to visit Sweden for three weeks in January, February or March 1949 as a guest of the Foundation. The idea behind…

The report presents data and discussion on U.S. education across sectors, as well as the work of the Office of Education. Among topics covered are a progress report by the Commissioner of Education; Office of Education management; the career education in educational reform; higher education, including student financial aid and the Talent Search…

This report presents the statistics of 371 teachers' colleges and normal schools for 1919-20. For the first time the list of teachers' colleges appears. It is composed of institutions offering four years of work above the secondary school and granting degrees. The work offered in such schools is considered of collegiate grade and is of such…

The Nelson amendment to the agricultural appropriation bill, approved March 4, 1907, which increased the Federal appropriation for the support of the land-grant colleges, provides that "said colleges may use a portion of this money for providing courses for the special preparation of instructors for teaching the elements of agriculture and…

Statistics concerning the training of teachers are given in this report. The major items presented include total enrollments; enrollments in teacher-training courses; instructors; graduates; receipts, including sources of support; expenditures; and detailed information regarding demonstration schools and practice teaching. The greater portion of…

This bulletin comprises a general survey in bibliographic form of current educational literature, domestic and foreign, received during the monthly period preceding the date of publication of each issue. This office can not supply the publications listed in this bulletin, other than those expressly designated as publications of the Bureau of…