This bulletin reports the results of a study conducted to obtain information on State certification requirements. A letter in the form of a questionnaire was sent to all 48 State departments of education requesting information on their requirements for certification of: (1) Secondary physical education teachers; (2) Secondary health education…

A major challenge to those concerned with the guidance and training of children today is to prepare them to take their places in a world in which they will be brought into increasingly closer relationship with the peoples of other lands. More and more we are stressing the need for developing better understanding of the people to whom we are so…

This bulletin is written to expand upon and illustrate the place of arithmetic in a modern program of the kind described in Bulletin 1949, No. 12, "The Place of Subjects in the Curriculum." This bulletin, "How Children Use Arithmetic," shows how children develop arithmetic abilities. It discusses teaching methods that grow out of recent research.…

"The school, as one of the significant agencies of the community, accepts its responsibilities for contributing to individual to individual, family, and community health. ...Classroom teachers in their daily contacts with boys and girls are the key persons in the school health program." These two sentences point up the theme of this bulletin. Four…

This particular bulletin is concerned with the concept of human rights, and the interpretation of some of these rights in the classroom, in the school, at home, and in the community. Although the discussion is directed toward the classroom teacher primarily, principals, supervisors, administrators, and parents who want children to succeed in all…

This bulletin is one of a series on the place of subjects in the elementary school curriculum. The first of the series showed how subject matter is introduced into the program in a modern school. The other bulletins in the series discuss how various skills, such as reading, creating in art, and writing are developed in the modern school program.…

This directory of 16mm film libraries has been compiled for the use of teachers, school administrators, librarians, community leaders, and others who use or wish to use motion pictures in their educational and informational programs. It is a revision and an expansion of the Office of Education publication, "A Directory of 897 16mm Film Libraries,"…

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was approved by the General Assembly of the United Nations in Paris, December 10, 1948. The vote was 48 to 0, but 8 countries abstained from voting. The Declaration is a statement of principles approved a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations. It is not a treaty and therefore…

School fires endanger pupils' lives and take annually a heavy toll in school property losses. If not controlled, these potentials may be changed quickly into serious losses. School officials, teachers, parents, and the public have an interest in school fire safety. Because of other interests and a lack of assigned responsibility in this area fire…

Interest in the school lunch program and nutrition education has been growing throughout the Nation over a period of years, especially since the enactment of the National School Lunch Act in 1945. School administrators, teachers, members of school boards, school lunch managers, parents, and others are asking the Office of Education pertinent…

The land-grant colleges and universities in the United States are the result of a partnership of the States and the Federal Government. They represent an effort to provide a type of higher education within the reach of, and adapted to the needs of, the agricultural and industrial people of this country. They have played a very important part in…

Since the last publication of "Scholarships and Fellowships Available at Institutions of Higher Education" by the Office of Education as Bulletin 1936, No. 10, innumerable requests for current information have been received from school and college officials, parents, high-school and college students, and other persons interested in extending…

School systems, as never before, are attempting to provide for physically handicapped children. Much has been accomplished, but an even larger task is still before us. Thousands of such children are not yet able to take advantage of their birthright--the opportunity for education. There are numerous reasons for this, one of which is lack of…

This bulletin describes practices in one- and two-teacher schools that are helping rural boys and girls get a good education. It contains suggestions for improving the programs of schools that do not meet the needs of boys and girls in the country today. In the school year 1947-48, there were approximately 75,000 one-teacher schools and 18,000…

Within the last decade the activity period has been adopted by an increasing number of high schools, even in those unaffected by bus transportation schedules. These schools believe it is a means for developing desirable civic and social activities for "all" pupils and for applying the "total" resources of school staff and equipment to the pupil…