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Monahan, A. C. – United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1913
In the Federal Census of 1910, 58.5 per cent of the population of the United States from 6 to 20 years of age, both inclusive, are classed as rural, which means that nearly three-fifths of the total American school population live in the open country, or in villages and small towns, under rural conditions. The total rural population of this class…
Descriptors: Rural Education, Rural Schools, Enrollment Trends, White Students
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Nelson, Raymond H. – Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1949
The U.S. Office of Education has undertaken the preparation of a series of basic studies on education in a number of Central and South American countries under the sponsorship of the Interdepartmental Committee on Cultural and Scientific Cooperation. This series of studies is part of a program to promote understanding of educational conditions in…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Elementary Education, Fine Arts, Teacher Qualifications
Minugh, Carol J.; Morse, Dian – 1981
This principal's manual, one of a series of nine staff development guides prepared by the Philadelphia School District, clarifies roles and responsibilities of various staff members and parents in providing programs to meet the career and vocational education needs of mildly to moderately handicapped students. Designed to be relevant to the…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Annotated Bibliographies
Chanute AFB Technical Training Center, IL. – 1975
This course, adapted from military curriculum materials for use in vocational and technical education, provides training in the theory and practice of sheet metal work. Designed for student self-instruction (such as a correspondence course), the text consists of four volumes. Volume 1 discusses shop mathematics, measurement and layout tools,…
Descriptors: Assembly (Manufacturing), Behavioral Objectives, Competence, Construction Materials
Slezak, James – 1984
This resource book, for practicing school administrators and professors of school administration, provides 151 adaptable, flexible processes which have been used effectively in school districts to improve academic achievement and learning climate. The book is organized into three parts. Part 1, "Excellence in Leadership," consists of chapters on…
Descriptors: Administrator Evaluation, Administrator Responsibility, Advisory Committees, Board Administrator Relationship
Mackett-Frank, Muriel; Frank, Frederick P. – 1980
Since 1976, a special training program in educational administration for persons with a professional background in vocational education has been conducted at Northern Illinois University. This program is known as the New Opportunities in Vocational Education Project and has an affirmative action emphasis. This supplemental report of the project…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Education, Administrator Role, Advisory Committees
Lightsey, Debra, Ed.; Gwinner, Valerie, Ed. – 1996
The Healthy Start Initiative is a national 5-year demonstration program that uses a broad range of community-driven, system development approaches to reduce infant mortality and improve the health and well-being of women, infants, children, and families. This volume, fourth in the series, deals with the topic of community outreach and is based on…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Child Health, Community Cooperation, Community Development
United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1913
In the older Greek education one-half of the school day was regularly spent by the Greek boys in exercises and games designed to make them strong and also to teach them the mental significance of sound health. During the middle ages this high ideal of soundness and sanity was lost, and even looked upon as spiritually dangerous. There is emerging…
Descriptors: Educational History, Annotated Bibliographies, School Health Services, Physical Examinations
Berkowitz, J. H. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1919
The great war now ended has shown to every nation the priceless value of its citizens. The beginnings of the health supervision of schools and school children, made before the war, are now seen as movements of the greatest significance for national conservation. The growth of school health supervision in the United States in the past few years is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, School Health Services, School Buildings
United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1893
The Commissioner of Education presents comparative statistics on city and country schools, attendance, teachers, accommodations, and school property and expenditures. Teacher salaries are given for 69 U.S. cities, with detailed salary information for Baltimore, St. Louis, Boston, New Orleans, and Cincinnati for each year since their public schools…
Descriptors: Attendance, Teachers, Educational Facilities, Expenditures
Ohio State Univ., Columbus. Center on Education and Training for Employment. – 1994
This document contains 22 units to consider for use in a tech prep competency profile for the occupation of instrumentation control technician. All the units listed will not necessarily apply to every situation or tech prep consortium, nor will all the competencies within each unit be appropriate. Several units appear within each specific…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Communications, Competence, Competency Based Education
Wilson, Morris D.; Baldwin, Robert – 1983
As a function of Des Moines, Iowa's, planning and management system for improving educational services through coordinated, continuous planning and evaluation at all levels from superintendent to classroom teacher, this report measures the success of district administration and individual schools in achieving stated objectives for 1982-83. Five…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Board of Education Policy, Computer Oriented Programs, Curriculum Evaluation
Minnesota State Dept. of Education, St. Paul. – 1984
This packet is designed to assist educational leaders in presenting current research-based information on the characteristics of effective schools to their school staff. The packet is divided into five sections, each including a sample presentation script, transparency models, and worksheets for promoting group discussion. The first section is an…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Discipline, Educational Environment, Educational Improvement
Koos, Leonard V. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1934
This manuscript, prepared by Doctor Koos and the staff, is a summary of the entire survey as published in 27 other monographs. It epitomizes the organization of secondary education, giving due stress to full-time and part-time schools; to the nature of the secondary-school population, showing that it has increased very greatly and, therefore, it…
Descriptors: School Effectiveness, Physical Education, Articulation (Education), Secondary Education
Cook, Katherine M. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1937
This chapter reviews the educational situation in rural and other sparsely settled areas as well as the major developments in education since 1928 when the Office of Education reviewed trends in rural education for the biennium 1927-28, following a series of similar reviews. It is prepared in conformity to the changed policy of the Office of…
Descriptors: Rural Education, Rural Schools, Educational Development, Educational Environment
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