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United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1915
The problems of industry, government, and life in the modern industrial and commercial city are numerous, large, and complex. For their solution a larger amount of scientific knowledge and higher standards of intelligence among citizens are needed. All the city's agencies for good and progress need to be united and vitalized for more effective…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Urban Universities, Urban Environment
Bonner, H. R. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1922
This report presents the statistics of city public schools for the school year 1919-20. The cities have been divided into five groups: Group I, including all cities having a population of 100,000 or more; Group II, cities having a population of 30,000 or more but fewer than 100,000; Group III, cities with a population of 10,000 or more but fewer…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Population Distribution, Urban Population, Attendance
Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1923
This bulletin presents the results of a study on the special problems of education for Indians in Oklahoma. During the months of April and May of 1922, a committee of Oklahoma educators, under the direction of the Bureau of Education, conducted a series of educational tests and measurements in public schools in various parts of the State. The…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Educational Change, Rural Schools, Educational History
Updegraff, Harlan; Hood, William R. – United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1912
The purpose of this study is to segregate and present a comparison of the statistics of urban and rural schools in the United States for the year 1910. From the new emphasis on agricultural education and the more intensive study of the problems of rural life in general which have been manifested of late has emerged a stronger conviction that…
Descriptors: Educational History, Comparative Analysis, Urban Schools, Rural Urban Differences
Foster, Emery M.; Martens, Elise H. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1938
For the past decade the Office of Education has periodically compiled statistics dealing with special schools and classes for exceptional children. During that time the importance of adjusting instructional procedures to meet the needs of individual boys and girls has been increasingly stressed in the general philosophy of education. Inherent in…
Descriptors: Residential Schools, Teaching Methods, Special Schools, Special Classes
Perry, Clarence Arthur – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1917
This bulletin contains the first data upon after-class activities in American public schools gathered under the new school-extension record system of the United States Bureau of Education. The tabulations presented in this paper are based upon the returns made to the Bureau of Education on its school extension blanks for the scholastic year ended…
Descriptors: Statistical Surveys, Questionnaires, Urban Schools, Income
Bureau 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
Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1921
The Biennial Survey of Education presents the statistics of practically all the important school systems in the United States for 1917-18. The various chapters in the volume have been printed as bulletins. Volume III of the 1916-18 Biennial Survey includes the following chapters: (1) Statistical Survey of Education, 1917-18; (2) State School…
Descriptors: School Districts, Urban Schools, Statistical Surveys, Public Schools
US Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1949
This biennial survey presents statistics and discussion on broad-range education, state school systems, city school systems, and higher education for 1945-46. Topics include administrative units, consolidation and transportation, enrollment across education sectors, high school and college graduates, state school system data, higher education,…
Descriptors: Public Education, Urban Schools, School Districts, Elementary Secondary Education
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Wieder, Alan – Equity and Excellence, 1988
Provides a brief history of the desegregation of two elementary schools in New Orleans (Louisiana) in 1960. Presents the recollections and observations of the mother of two of the White students who continued to attend school despite a boycott. (FMW)
Descriptors: Black Education, Black Students, Blacks, Civil Rights
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Stone, Susan; Jacob, Robin Tepper – Education Next, 2005
Despite mixed reviews from many educators--and some researchers--Chicago's retention policy to end social promotion has turned out to be a popular program. Surprisingly, perhaps, its most avid fans are the people most affected by it: teachers and students. Chicago's ending of social promotion was intended to make educators pay more attention to…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Teacher Surveys, Student Surveys, Reading Skills
Dembowski, Frederick L., Ed.; Lemasters, Linda K., Ed. – NCPEA Publications, 2006
This is the 2006 National Council of Professors of Educational Administration "NCPEA" Yearbook. This yearbook is being distributed to all of the registered participants of the 2006 NCPEA Summer Conference, to be held in Lexington, Kentucky. "Unbridled Spirit" is the motto for Kentucky, hence inclusion in the title for the…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Urban Schools, Graduate Students, Andragogy
Jennings, Jack; Rentner, Diane Stark – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2006
For the past four years, the Center on Education Policy (CEP), an independent nonprofit research and advocacy organization, has been conducting a comprehensive and continuous review of NCLB, producing the annual reports contained in the series "From the Capital to the Classroom" as well as numerous papers on specific issues related to…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, State Departments of Education, School Districts, Public Education
Gray (Naomi) Associates, Inc., San Francisco, CA. – 1984
The training manual is designed to accompany "The Story of California," a set of bilingual instructional materials for limited-English-proficient, native Spanish-speaking students in urban middle schools intended to ease their transition into comfortable use of English while maintaining Spanish language skills. The manual is to be used…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Affective Objectives, Behavioral Objectives, Bilingual Instructional Materials
Bryant, Bunyan; Jones, Alan H. – 1993
This handbook focuses on five long-standing correlates for effective schools postulated by the late Ron Edmonds. Edmonds searched long and hard for those variables that were present in successful inner-city schools populated primarily by African American children. His work demonstrated that it is possible to educate so-called hard-to-reach…
Descriptors: Administrators, Black Education, Black Students, Disadvantaged Youth
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