The Nation and the Schools: A Study in the Application of the Principle of Federal Aid to Education in the United States |
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... ment of Federal aid to education , and to Miss Frances M. Burke , of the Indiana , Pa . , State Normal School , for her painstaking work in preparing the statistical tables . Paragraphs from an article contributed by one of the authors ...
... ment of Federal aid to education , and to Miss Frances M. Burke , of the Indiana , Pa . , State Normal School , for her painstaking work in preparing the statistical tables . Paragraphs from an article contributed by one of the authors ...
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... ment to settlement The silence of the Constitu- tion on education . CHAPTER V. LAND GRANTS FOR STATE UNIVERSITIES Manasseh Cutler secured , for the Ohio Company , a grant of two townships " for the purpose of an university " in July ...
... ment to settlement The silence of the Constitu- tion on education . CHAPTER V. LAND GRANTS FOR STATE UNIVERSITIES Manasseh Cutler secured , for the Ohio Company , a grant of two townships " for the purpose of an university " in July ...
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... ment , endowment , and maintenance of an agri- cultural and mechanical college " in each state , passed Congress in 1859 , and was vetoed by President Bu- chanan The bill was passed again in 1862 and signed July 2 , 1862 , by President ...
... ment , endowment , and maintenance of an agri- cultural and mechanical college " in each state , passed Congress in 1859 , and was vetoed by President Bu- chanan The bill was passed again in 1862 and signed July 2 , 1862 , by President ...
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... ment , for specific educational purposes , as in " land- grant " colleges and the various provisions of the Smith - Hughes Act - Congress may encourage welfare work in the states Congress may appropriate money for the preparation of ...
... ment , for specific educational purposes , as in " land- grant " colleges and the various provisions of the Smith - Hughes Act - Congress may encourage welfare work in the states Congress may appropriate money for the preparation of ...
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... ment - Education is needed - What is now being done in a few states and in several cities points the way to what ought to be done everywhere , but it I will not be done if left to local or state initiative . CHAPTER XVIII . THE WEAKEST ...
... ment - Education is needed - What is now being done in a few states and in several cities points the way to what ought to be done everywhere , but it I will not be done if left to local or state initiative . CHAPTER XVIII . THE WEAKEST ...
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Page 87 - Department was established, as stated in the act, "for the purpose of collecting such statistics and facts as shall show the condition and progress of education in the several states and territories, and of diffusing such information respecting the organization and management of schools and school systems, and methods of teaching, as shall aid the people of the United States in the establishment and maintenance of efficient school systems, and otherwise promote the cause of education throughout the...
Page 70 - State, which may take and claim the benefit of this act, to the endowment, support and maintenance of at least one college, where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts...
Page 78 - Territory shall be twenty-five thousand dollars, to be applied only to instruction in agriculture, the mechanic arts, the English language and the various branches of mathematical, physical, natural and economic science, with special reference to their applications in the industries of life, and to the facilities for such instruction...
Page 23 - States through which the road shall pass ; provided, always, that the three foregoing propositions herein offered are on the condition that the convention of the said State shall provide, by an ordinance irrevocable without the consent of the United States...
Page 97 - Education to make, or cause to have made studies, investigations, and reports, with particular reference to their use in aiding the States in the establishment of vocational schools and classes and in giving instruction in agriculture, trades and industries, commerce and commercial pursuits, and home economics.
Page 277 - Have not the cotter's children as keen a sense of all the freshness, verdure, fragrance, melody, and beauty of luxuriant nature as the pale sons of kings ? Or is it on the mind that God has stamped the imprint of a baser birth so that the poor man's child knows with an inborn certainty that his lot is to crawl, not climb ? It is not so.
Page 343 - States in the proportion which their population bears to the total population of the United States, not including outlying possessions, according to the last preceding United States census...
Page 341 - Said sums shall be allotted to the States in the proportion which their population bears to the total population of the United States...
Page 344 - Act and provide for the distribution and administration of such funds as shall be apportioned to said State, and shall designate the State's chief educational authority, whether a State superintendent of public instruction, a commissioner of education, a State board of education, or other legally constituted chief educational authority, to represent said State in the administration of this Act, and such authority so designated shall be recognized by the Secretary of Education: Provided, That in any...
Page 62 - Territory in which said reserve is situated, to be expended as the State or Territorial legislature may prescribe for the benefit of the public schools and public roads of the county or counties in which the forest reserve is situated...