Carnegie General Donations, Gifts and Grants to National Education Association of the United States, Commission on the Reorganization of Secondary Education, Committee on Social Studies, Washington, D.C.
Carnegie General Donations, Gifts and Grants to National Education Association of the United States, Commission on the Reorganization of Secondary Education, Committee on Social Studies, Washington, D.C.
Endowments; Social sciences--Study and teaching (Secondary); Teachers--Training of; Washington (D.C.); National Education Association of the United States. Commission on the Reorganization of Secondary Education. Committee on Social Studies; United States. Bureau of Education; Jones, Thomas Jesse, 1873-1950; Dunn, Arthur William, 1868-1927
Format
correspondence
Genre
Business correspondence
Date
[May 18, 1916]
Physical Description
microfilm, 16 mm, b&w
Note (Reel no.)
Reel 81
Note
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US Bureau of Education; Thomas J. Jones
The following report is the result of three years of continuous inquiry by the committee whose membership is given on page 6. .. ...In 1914 a preliminary report was prepared by the chairman of the committee and printed by the Bureau of Education in Bu lletin, 1914, No. 41, together with other preliminary reports of the Commission on the Reorganization of Secondary Education. The report as presented therewith was compiled by Arthur William Dunn, who for the past year has been the secretary of the committee. Mr. Dunn's pioneer service and long experience in civic education enabled him to make a very valuable contribution to the deliberations of the committee. His connection with the United States Bureau of Education as Special Agent in Civic Education has also given the committee unusual opportunity to keep in touch with the experience and thought of the entire country The committee odes much to the cordial cooperation of the Bureau both in the preparation and in the publication of the report... ...A summary of this report has been approved by the Reviewing Committee of the Commission on the Reorganization of Secondary Education...On the basis of this summary, the Reviewing Committee has authorized the publication of the report by the Bureau of Education as one of the reports of the commission. THOMAS JESSE JONES, Chairman Committee on Social Studies. CLARENCE D. KINGSLEY Chairman Reviewing Committee." [SOURCE: Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior. The Social Studies in Secondary Education: A Six-Year Program Adapted Both to the 6-3-3 and the 8-4 Plans of Organization. Report of the Committee on Social Studies of the Commission on the Reorganization of Secondary Education of the National Education Association. Bulletin, 1916, No. 28, compiled by Arthur William Dunn, Secretary of the Committee. Washington, Government Printing Office, 1916, pp. 5-6. ERIC, https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED542444. Accessed 3 Oct. 2018.]