A Manual of Educational Legislation: For the Guidance of Committees on Education in the State Legislatures (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Education, United States Bureau Of

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ISBN 10 : 1334782334 ISBN 13 : 9781334782336

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2019

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The purpose of this manual is to place in the hands of the educational committees of the 44 State legislatures that convene in 1919 a suggestive program of educational legislation based upon the present emergency in our national life. Each topic discussed falls, as a rule, under three distinct heads: (1) Historic background; (2) Summary of present organization or status; and (3) Reasonable standards of attainment. THE AFTER-WAR PERIOD AND NATIONAL PROGRESS. The legislatures in their present session will have to deal with many vitally important educational problems, some of them of long standing, but which now, in the light of war experience, have received new vital importance, and others resulting from the great issues of the war. 1. The first problem is that the schools shall be made to serve America as a nation more completely than now. This involves not only school education in its generally accepted understanding, but includes the whole problem of A mericanization. There are in the United States nearly 6,000,000 persons over 10 years of age unable to read or wiite (700,000 of them young men who were liable to recent draft laws). Fifty-eight percent of these illiterates are white persons; 28 percent are native-born whites, and 30 percent are foreign-born whites; 40 percent of the rest are Negroes. To educate all its people without exception is both the duty and the right of democracy. If these people have been deprived of educational opportunities in their youth, it is the duty of the Nation to extend this blessing to them now in their years of maturity; if these people have neglected theii earlier opportunities, democracy has the right to demand that they correct the deficiency with public assistance at once. 2. The second problem is concerned with the health of the Nation. The war has disclosed many things in regard to physical health that we are loath
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1334782334
• ISBN 13: 9781334782336
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 73
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