Curriculum construction and the building of courses of study are now recognized as essential processes in improving the work of the school. How to make programs of curriculum development and revision more effective, how to facilitate and coordinate the activities of curriculum committees, and how to utilize human endeavor, advantageously yet…

Approximately 21,000 elementary school principals in charge of the several administrative units of public education represent a large proportion of the school administrators. They are responsible for 21 million students out of the 27 million attending public elementary and secondary schools and colleges in the United States, and two-thirds of the…

The depression of the past few years led colleges and universities to seek new ways in which to assist their financially needy students. In January 1937 the Office of Education requested all colleges and universities to send it descriptions of the projects they had devised. The responses to this request indicated a very cooperative spirit on the…

This bulletin is a product of the Local School Units Project, a cooperative effort of the Office of Education, the National Professional Advisory Committee, the Works Progress Administration which funded the project, and the Office of Education Professional Advisory Committee. Its work could not have been completed without the support of the chief…

This bulletin presents a list of publications of the United States Bureau of Education for the years 1867 to 1907, prepared under the direction of the present librarian of the Bureau. This list is intended to make the publications of the Bureau better known and to facilitate their use. It should be of service to librarians and to students of…

This bibliography is the ninth similar annual summary of the English literature of education. This bibliography includes books on educational subjects printed in the English language in 1907, important articles on the same topic from the periodicals of 1907, valuable papers published in the transactions of educational societies that bear the…

To define the status of music education in the United States has been practically impossible. The utter lack of systematic courses of instruction, the widely varying standards of merit, and the absence of cooperation upon the part of those engaged in music teaching not only have made impossible any accurate computation of the results which have…

With Japan and America entering the ranks of the colonizing powers, the question of colonial education becomes particularly important, especially so in view of the fact that education in both Japan and America occupies a commanding position. It is rather significant that the two great Pacific powers should have become colonizing nations within…

The interest in industrial education which has arisen in this country has brought into new prominence the whole system of training for trades by a regular course of apprenticeship. Education by apprenticeship and education by schools have gone on for many generations side by side as two entirely distinct and unrelated forms of education. The newer…

An attempt has been made to classify and to analyze the changes brought in the public school systems of the various States and Territories by the legislative measures enacted during the past two years, October 1, 1906 to October 1, 1908. Supplementary to this legislative material, there are also included digests of or citations to those decisions…

The list of 52 institutions included in these tables is not sharply defined. In general it includes, in addition to fully organized state and territorial universities, such other institutions of higher education as are supported, at least in part, by the several States. It does not include state normal schools nor high schools. Of the 82…

This bulletin contains a report prepared by President Hadley of Yale University on the facilities for advanced study and research in the offices of the National Government at Washington. Especial interest attaches to this publication. It sets forth, in compact form, information which has frequently been sought by institutions and individuals…

Inquiries have been made from time to time with reference to the opportunities open to Chinese students in American colleges and universities. Such inquiries have of late been urgently presented by representatives of the United States in the Chinese Empire, who have taken a deep interest in the progress and influence of American educational ideas…

The subject of the proper feeding of children of school age involves problems which may be said to be the most difficult as well as the most important of all the problems of human nutrition. The child of school age must grow and must also work. In this he differs on the one hand from the infant, whose work is all ahead of him and on the other hand…

This bulletin reports facts concerning the salaries, the amount of education, and the amount of experience in teaching of men and of women in public and in private secondary schools in the United States. It shows the typical condition and the variations from it of each fact for each group, and makes certain obvious comparisons between the groups.…