This chapter on the "Biennial Survey of Education in the United States, 1928-1930" covers the following topic areas as they relate to hygiene and physical education: (1) White House conference; (2) A septennium of school health work; (3) Buildings and sanitation; (4) Heath examination; (5) Dental disease and treatment; (6) Ultra-violet light; (7) Nutrition; (8) Anthropometry; (9) Health education; (10) Mental hygiene; (11) Athletics; (12) Physical education; (13) Research in play; (14) School playgrounds; (15) Community use of school property; (16) Planning ahead; (17) The summer camp in higher education; (18) Land-grant colleges; and (19) Legislation. [Best copy available has been provided.].
This document contains the first three chapters of the Biennial Survey of Education in the United States, covering the years 1928-1930. These chapters include: (1) Statistical summary of education, 1929-30 (Emery M. Foster); (2) Statistics of State school systems, 1929-30 (David T. Blose with the cooperation of Walter S. Deffenbaugh); and (3) Statistics of city school systems, 1929-30 (Prepared in the Division of Statistics with the collaboration of W. S. Deffenbaugh). Individual chapters contain footnotes. (Contains 9 figures and 81 tables.) [Due to its size, this volume has been processed as two separate parts. The first part includes Chapter I through Chapter III. The second part includes Chapter IV through the Index. For Chapter IV through the Index, see ED543454. Best copy available has been provided.].
In the following pages are given summary reports of two major surveys that were completed by the Office of Education, namely, the survey of land-grant colleges and universities, and the survey of Negro colleges and universities. There are also included brief descriptions of the purpose and organization of the nation-wide surveys of secondary education, the education of teachers, and school finance now under way. (Contains 6 footnotes.) [Best copy available has been provided.].
This chapter of the "Biennial Survey of Education in the United States, 1928-1930" focuses on the following topic areas as they relate to homemaking education: Part I: Present trends, contains the following: (a) Contributions rendered; (b) Philosophy changes; (c) Expansion of home economics in our public schools; (d) Home economics required; (e) Some present practices, objectives, and economic values; (f) Family relationships and social adjustments; (g) Child care and training; (h) Home economics in parent education; (i) Home economics for boys; and (j) Home economics and preparation for gainful occupations. Part II: Recent important events of interest in the field of home economics, contains the following: (a) White House Conference on Child Health and Protection: Its significance to home economics; (b) Home-making conferences called by the Commissioner of Education; (c) The department of supervisors and teachers of home economics of the National Education Association; and (d) Survey of home economics in land-grant colleges and universities. Part III describes outstanding studies completed and in progress, and Part IV presents some forecasts for the future. [Best copy available has been provided.].
This chapter of the "Biennial Survey of Education in the United States, 1928-1930" focuses on the following topic areas as they relate to commercial education: (1) Introduction; (2) Trends revealed by enrollment statistics; (3) Research basis for objectives; (4) Commercial occupation surveys; (5) Office equipment surveys; (6) Job analyses; (7) Significant developments in the secondary schools; (8) Recent surveys of commercial education; (9) Contents in commercial subjects; (10) Developments in city and State supervision; (11) The private business schools; (12) The junior colleges; (13) Training and certification of commercial teachers; (14) Commercial teachers' associations and conferences; (15) University education for business; and (16) Conclusion. (Contains 36 footnotes.) [Best copy available has been provided.].
The preparation of young men and women in American universities and colleges for the numerous activities and responsibilities that engross the lives of the people has become one of the major enterprises of the country. This is evidenced not only by the remarkable growth in the number and size of higher educational institutions but also by the increasing seriousness of effort that is being put forth by these institutions to improve the quality of their product. This chapter of the "Biennial Survey of Education in the United States," concerned with the topic of college and university education, is divided into two parts. Part I: Growth and coordination of higher educational institutions contains the following sections: (1) Aspects of growth; (2) Problems resulting from expansion; (3) Higher educational associations; (4) Coordinating agencies for research; and (5) Surveys. Part II: Emerging types of colleges and universities covers: (1) Recent decisions; and (2) Present trends in higher education. (Contains 6 tables and 10 footnotes.) [Best copy available has been provided.].
This chapter of the "Biennial Survey of Education in the United States" is concerned with the topic of the professional education of teachers. Current problems in the education of teachers that are of chief interest, as judged by returns from nearly 100 teacher-preparing institutions and from State departments of education, and by general discussions to be found in the literature of the field, may be grouped under the following topics: (1) Teacher supply and demand; (2) Certification of teachers; (3) Overhead and internal administration and control of teacher-preparing institutions; (4) Problems of finance; (5) Institutional staff problems, including selective admission; (6) Curriculum construction and revision; (7) Student teaching and the training school; and (8) Education of teachers in service. Since developments during the short period of the biennium are too limited to permit the discovery of many distinct trends that will throw light upon the possible solution of problems indicated above, and furthermore since the present year marks the end of a decade of significant and noteworthy changes in the field of teacher education, the conclusions in this survey chapter will in many cases be based upon data covering a 10-year period, or upon an 8-year period when data for the year 1930 are not available. (Contains 4 tables and 3 footnotes.) [Best copy available has been provided.].
The legislature of every American Commonwealth, except Alabama, was in regular session during the years 1929 and 1930 here reviewed. A large mass of educational legislation was enacted. The enactments represent the latest types of legislation on the subjects with which they generally deal. Distinctly new educational movements are not conspicuous among them. Recent educational legislation undertakes principally the improvement of older laws and proceedings along lines already well defined. With respect to this type of legislation it may be said that so long as public-school conditions remain below widely approved standards, many of them still are, so long as school administration becomes more complex, and so long as educational standards advance, better and additional laws will be necessary. Among the present needs are more school funds, improved school buildings, efficiency in school business, and properly trained teachers. Until these things are accomplished the proposition that there is too much educational legislation will be untenable. The following topics relating to educational legislation are discussed herein: (1) Educational investigations and surveys; (2) Recodification of school laws; (3) State departments; (4) State school support; (5) County responsibility; (6) County superintendent; (7) Local school organization and support; (8) Teacher training and certification; (9) The curriculum; (10) Teachers pensions; (11) School attendance; (12) Pupil transportation and tuiti0n; (13) Higher education; and (14) Education of exceptional children. (Contains 3 footnotes.) [Best copy available has been provided.].
This brief report on the topic of the public education of adults indicates that progress has been made in the field of child development and parent education; that this field has been stimulated by large appropriations from private and public sources; that public agencies are taking over more and more of the responsibility for parent education; that colleges and universities and State departments of education have an important place in the development of this new field of education; that the parent-teacher movement is growing in significance and effectiveness; and that parent consciousness has been awakened to the need for a better understanding of the problems of child care and training and to the importance of the task in education which they share with teachers. This bulletin covers the following topics: (1) Public education of adults: Movement during decade 1920-1930; (2) Elementary education for adults under public-school auspices; (3) Rehabilitation work pays; (4) Work done by States; (5) University extension; (6) Alumni education; (7) Parent education: Growth and significance of movement; and (8) Organizations conducting parent education projects. (Contains 9 footnotes.) [Best copy available has been provided.].
This chapter of the "Biennial Survey of Education in the United States, 1928-1930" focuses on the following topic areas as they relate to agriculture: (1) Federally reimbursed classes; (2) Agricultural extension work; (3) Agriculture in the colleges; (4) Special schools of agriculture; (5) Educational activities of the Federal Farm Board; (6) National Advisory Committee on Education; (7) Agricultural education through national radio networks; (8) Organizations of agricultural education workers; and (9) Important publications. (Contains 6 tables and 43 footnotes.) [Best copy available has been provided.].
